Today’s movie is a horror film with a scene that happens on April 30. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
DRACULA
On April 30, 1897 [1:32 to 6:49] Renfield a British solicitor ignores warnings by the local inhabitants and journeys to the ruined castle of Count Dracula to deliver papers relating to Dracula’s lease of Carfax Abby in England. Renfield, a complete idiot, soon becomes Dracula’s slave. The pair journey to England, arriving on a ship where everyone has died, except for the insane Renfield. Renfield is committed to Dr. Seward’s Sanitarium, which is next to Carfax Abbey. Dracula arranges an introduction to Dr. Seward, his daughter Mina, her fiancé Jonathan Harker and her friend Lucy Weston. Dracula turns Lucy into a vampire like himself. Dr. Van Helsing confronts Renfield and thinks he might be a vampire. Dracula attacks Mina and drinks her blood. When Dracula visits the sanitarium, both Van Helsing and Harker notice he has no reflection in a mirror and Dracula flees. Lucy, risen from the dead is attacking children. Van Helsing tries to protect Mina with wolfsbane. Dracula confronts Van Helsing, but he resists Dracula’s control. Mina attacks Harker, but Van Helsing saves him. Dracula hypnotizes the nurse who removes the necklace of wolfsbane that Mina wears and Dracula abducts Mina. Van Helsing and Harker track Dracula to the Abbey, where Dracula kills Renfield thinking he led the two men there. While Dracula rests in his coffin during the day, Van Helsing kills him with a stake to the heart, freeing Mina from the vampire’s control.
In the film at 1:58, we are told it’s Walpurgis Night, whichis this date as per European Mythology by Jacqueline Simpson (Peter Bedrich Books, New York, 1987) at page 120
Producers - Tod Browning and Carl Laemmle, Jr.
Director - Tod Browning
Screenwriter - Garrett Fort
Runtime – 1 hour 15 minutes
Released – February 12, 1931
Starring –
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula
Helen Chandler as Mina Harker
David Manners as Jonathan Harker
Dwight Frye as Renfield
Edward Van Sloan as Abraham Van Helsing
Herbert Bunston as Dr. John Seward
Frances Dade as Lucy Westenra
Joan Standing as Nurse Briggs
Charles K. Gerrard as Martin, Renfield's attendant
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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