I said "at times". At times this is just quite, quite boring. But the climax, the last 20 minutes, is a blast.
More Overlooked Movies at Todd Mason's blog, Socialist Jazz. Nothing up at the mo', though.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Tuesday's Overlooked Movies: Dracula vs. Frankenstein
I said "at times". At times this is just quite, quite boring. But the climax, the last 20 minutes, is a blast.
More Overlooked Movies at Todd Mason's blog, Socialist Jazz. Nothing up at the mo', though.
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Not yet, because it ain't Tuesday on this continent yet...
Hurry up the sun then, will you?
It does have a place in film history of being the last movies of both J.Carroll Naish and Lon Chaney, Jr. A sad end to their careers although Chaney was in quite a few turkeys towards the end.
Surprised to see the dwarf Angelo Rossitto in the cast. He was in several films with Bela Lugosi in the 1940s and goes all the way back to John Barrymore's 1927 silent "The Beloved Rogue" and the 1929 adaptation of A. Merritt's "Seven Footprints to Satan." But checking IMDB, the 2'11" actor was active till 1987 including a continuing role on "Baretta."
Forrest J. Ackerman has one of his cameos in this one.
Yes, you're absolutely right about those facts, Richard, I should've mentioned them already. Angelo Rossitto's role is small and almost meaningless, but he has some funny lines. Forrest Ackerman's scene is one of the stupidest in the film, though there's some humour in it, while he sits by the Zandor Vorkov Dracula.
But I should also say that Lon Chaney is almost the only one in the film who can act. Well, maybe apart from Naish. There's also Russ Tamblyn, but I didn't even recognize him!
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