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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0663525700925
Format: Color, Black & White, Director's Cut, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Number Of Items: 2
Release Date: August 01, 2002
Running Time: 120 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 1997
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Bela Lugosi and Dracula are inseparable images from the heyday of Hollywood. More than any other actor in film history, Lugosi is the master of the macabre, the king of the vampires, and the cult hero of horror movies. And yet he was also a man who fought in wars and revolutions, who married five times, and who mastered stagecraft and film arts in Hungary, Germany, and the United States. He remained an enigma in Hollywood even as his career dwindled into the weird worlds of drug abuse and filmmaker Ed Wood. Lugosi's fusion with the famed vampire became more permanent than ever when he was buried in his Dracula cape in 1956. LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD'S DRACULA unravels the truth behind the legendary star by interweaving rare film footage from 1918-1956, home movies, and previously-unseen photographs with narration by Lugosi costar Robert Clarke and Lugosi fan Rue McClanahan. Numerous on-camera interviews span family members like his son and widow, Academy Award-winning director Robert Wise, legendary film producer Howard W. Koch, and a host of Lugosi's costars and personal friends.
The film has won awards and accolades at film festivals and theatrical screenings across the globe. Film historian Michael H. Price, author of FORGOTTEN HORRORS, has proclaimed that "Gary Rhodes's LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD'S DRACULA is the first life-story to give Lugosi his generous due, to treat Lugosi as something greater than a martyr, and to mingle an academic thoroughness with an unabashed enthusiasm towards its troubled and majestic subject."
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i have waited for a documentary about horror legend bela lugosi for so long and now it's here on dvd for the first time. gary don rhodes has done a brilliant job.
i particularly like the background music that was selected for the programme and the early photos of the man himself(most of which were previously unseen i would say). all the highlights are here: lugosi's early theatre experiences, his world war one experiences and of course, his breakthrough role that would make his name - dracula. ... Read More
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I read a lot about horror actors and I have seen many documentaries on these classic horror men. This Lugosi documentary is one of the finest I've ever seen with some very interesting and new information for fans of the great underappreciated actor. If your a fan, this is a no brainer. It's a bit pricey, but I think it's worth it. I bid you......Velcome!
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Congratulations for this material, it is very interesting. Not only as a biography but a series of good souvenirs with this great Hungary artist, the world's Dracula.
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I have seen or own many of the film documentaries on Bela Lugosi and this, by far, is the best. I also like the fact that they added some of his radio appearances on a separate disc. Maybe this same group will have future docu-movies on other actors from the classic days of mystery and thrills.
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This is a marvellous documentary all about the actor Bela Lugosi, produced by the foremost experts on the actor and with great affection this is a MUST have for any Lugosi fans or afficienados of the golden age of movies. Packed full of rare footage, interviews and little known facts I am so glad that this doesnt dwell on the tragic aspects of his life so well documented in the movie ED WOOD, instead its a respectful tribute and something I will watch again and again...not to mention listening to the ... Read More
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