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Jan 25 12 12:35 AM
todmichel wrote:Quote: "When completed, the Spanish version of Dracula cost just over $66,000 to make and only took 22 nights to film, compared to the seven weeks and $450,000 it took to film the English version. In fact, the Spanish crew shot the film so fast that they ended up shooting some of their scenes on sets that weren’t completely finished. Rather than wait for them to be finished, the filmmakers compensated for the empty sets with clever lighting."If true - and I think it is - this is the absolute proof that the Spanish version wasn't "just a copy of the Browning" but an original work, vastly superior on all points to the Browning film - including Villarias, who is far better than Lugosi in spite of some unfortunate almost comical shots. But, after all, some critics thought that Lugosi was simply "ridiculous" in DRACULA. Bertrand Tavernier, for instance. He also called the US version "a boring anonymous pensum".
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