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On August 11 1992, an audience at London's National Film Theatre had a rare chance to see the lavish 160 minute play, which the BBC had kept locked in the vaults since the 70s. And this Dracula turned out to be an unsung classic: not the stolid literary adaptation it might have been, but an inventive and gripping vampire movie, heavy with symbolism, which makes the genre seem new again. The TV version manages to overcome the potential pitfalls in the book, such as its long romantic interludes and the lack of a climactic confrontation between Dracula and Van Helsing. Director Philip Saville's visuals invest every shot with atmosphere, so that the count's presence is felt even when he's not on screen. Jourdan,
the first English-speaking French Dracula, plays
the count as essentially tragic. Photoplay
in 1977 quoted him as saying:
Count Dracula was a co-production with WNET/13 New York, which may have meant the eroticism had to be moderated but ensures the production looks sumptuous: at last a BBC production in which almost all the special effects are convincing and even the transfers from filmed to videotaped scenes don't seem uneasy. Darren
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