Thursday, October 9, 2014

VLAD TO THE BONE

With Dracula Untold opening tomorrow…

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s acknowledge another fine Dracula: Jack Palance, who played the Count, quite well, in this 1973 TV-movie version leanly scripted by Richard Matheson and directed by Dan Curtis…




Palance’s high eastern-European cheekbones give him something of a resemblance to the famous portraits of Prince Vlad, aka Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Dracula, the vampire prince’s historical namesake…

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