Moon Seattle
Book
Experience the Life of the City Seattle is a world-class metropolis that hasn't outgrown its...
Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Isan Thai & Lao Roots
Book
From chef James Syhabout of two-Michelin-star restaurant Commis, an Asian-American cookbook like no...
food and drink
Best 100 Juices for Kids
Book
Jessica Fisher's creative and tasty approach to juicing includes terrific, kid-friendly alternatives...
Madeira: The Islands and Their Wines: 2016
Book
Madeira wine is currently experiencing a renaissance. It is a wine that behaves like almost no...
Insider London: A Curated Guide to the Most Stylish Shops, Restaurants, and Cultural Experiences
Book
Sophisticated shopping and travel expert Rachel Felder, the author of Insider Brooklyn, takes you...
An East End Story
Book
One evening in the long hot summer of 1959, Alfred Gardner was walking home along Commercial Road....
Bring Up the Bodies
Book
Read our exclusive interview with Hilary Mantel +++ Read the novel as an ebook Man Booker...
Three Sisters Bake: Delectable Recipes for Every Day
Gillian Reith, Nichola Reith and Linsey Reith
Book
The Scottish Reith sisters love food and believe it should be mulled over, shared and celebrated at...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) in Movies
Nov 10, 2020
The plot: Four English travellers arrive at a tiny hamlet in the Carpathian Mountains and ignore warnings from the locals not to travel to Carlsbad, the domain of Count Dracula. A dark, driverless carriage arrives to take them to the sinister castle, but they discover too late that they have been lured there to provide the blood which will allow Dracula to rise from the grave once more.
Dracula does not speak in the film, save for a few hisses. According to Christopher Lee: "I didn't speak in that picture. The reason was very simple. I read the script and saw the dialogue! I said to Hammer, if you think I'm going to say any of these lines, you're very much mistaken.
Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster disputed that account in his memoir Inside Hammer, writing that "Vampires don't chat. So I didn't write him any dialogue. Christopher Lee has claimed that he refused to speak the lines he was given...So you can take your pick as to why Christopher Lee didn't have any dialogue in the picture. Or you can take my word for it. I didn't write any.
The film was made back to back with Rasputin, the Mad Monk, using many of the same sets and cast, including Lee, Shelley, Matthews and Farmer. Shelley later remembered accidentally swallowing one of her fangs in one scene, and having to drink salt water to bring it back up again because of the tight shooting schedule, as well as there being no spare set of fangs.
Its a decent Dracula film.