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Excellent performance....

posted 17 years ago by kga58
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by Francis Lederer as Dracula/Cousin Belac. None of this sympathetic "boo hoo for me I have to wander eternity alone" crap for him! His Dracula is purely evil--and seriously creepy. I heard he didn't want this role, but he is so perfect in it that it's hard to believe.

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[–] Woodyanders 14 years ago

I agree. Lederer was simply superb as Dracula; his smooth and hypnotic presence was the key reason this film works as well as it does.

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