Dracula's son

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Movie
German title Dracula's son
Original title Son of Dracula
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1943
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert Siodmak
script Curt Siodmak
Eric Taylor
production Ford Beebe
Donald H. Brown
Jack J. Gross
music Hans J. Salter
camera George Robinson
cut Saul A. Goodkind
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Dracula's daughter

Son of Dracula (original title: Son of Dracula ) is in black and white twisted American horror film of Universal Studios from the year 1943 . After Dracula's daughter (1936), the film is already the second sequel to Dracula (1931), but its content is no longer related to the novel by Bram Stoker . Directed by Robert Siodmak , the title role was played Lon Chaney .

action

Since returning from her trip to Budapest , Katherine Caldwell has had very morbid interests in life and death and the possibility of being resurrected after death. In Europe, much to the annoyance of her fiancé Frank, she met a mysterious and fascinating aristocrat named Alucard and invited him to her home, the Dark Oaks estate.

Shortly after the charismatic count's arrival, strange things begin to take their course. The old Madame Zimba, who is supposed to prophesy the future for Katherine, collapses in shock when she meets a giant bat, and Katherine's father, the elderly Colonel Caldwell, appears to die of heart failure that same night. But Dr. Brewster, the family doctor, has noticed the small wounds on the Colonel's neck and begins to investigate.

Katherine meanwhile surprises her sister Claire with a new will, according to which she gets the entire fortune and only the Dark Oaks plantation should go into the sole ownership of Katherine. She also explains to those in attendance, stunned, that she intends to break off her engagement to Frank and marry Count Alucard instead. Frank doesn't want to let that happen. Armed, he sneaks into the house at night to shoot Alucard. However, the bullet penetrates the man's body without injuring him. Instead, Katherine, who was standing behind the Count, collapses, fatally hit.

In a panic, Frank flees to Dr. Brewster, who already met with occult expert Dr. Lazlo advised. According to Dr. Lazlos, Alucard could be a descendant of Count Dracula, the famous vampire who was destroyed around the turn of the century. The next night, Frank receives a visit from Katherine, who, like Alucard, is now a vampire. She reveals to him that she doesn't love Count Alucard at all and that she only used him to achieve immortality, since she has always feared death. She wants to share eternal life with Frank, before he should only destroy Alucard. This can only be done if a wooden stake is driven through his heart or if the count is prevented from returning to his coffin before sunrise.

Katherine tells Frank where to find the coffin; in the disused mine on the property behind Dark Oaks. When Alucard steps into the mine, he discovers Frank who has set fire to his resting place. The count desperately tries to put out the fire, but the sun is already rising and he is dissolving in the rays of the sun shining in the mine shaft. Only his skeleton and his signet ring remain.

When Doctors Brewster and Lazlo arrive with the sheriff, Frank has already driven a stake through Katherine's heart and burned Dark Oaks, because the woman he loved died the moment she turned vampire.

background

Dracula's son was Robert Siodmak's first film for the film production company Universal, with which he remained under contract until Deported (1950). His starting salary in Son of Dracula was 125 dollars per week. Siodmak, who initially resisted the fabric, shot the film in just 16 days.

Filming was completed on February 4, 1943. Dracula's son started in the United States on November 5, 1943. The film was not shown in cinemas in Germany , but was first released on DVD in 2004 as part of the “Monster Legacy DVD Collection”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Siodmak, Hans C. Blumenberg (Ed.): Between Berlin and Hollywood. Memories of a great film director. Herbig, Munich 1980, 295 pp., ISBN 3-8004-0892-9 , pp. 100-101.
  2. ↑ Robert Siodmak - author, director . In: CineGraph - Lexikon zum Deutschsprachigen Film , Lg. 14, F 11
  3. ↑ Dracula's Son in the Internet Movie Database .