The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela LugosiUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2013 M07 24 - 560 páginas This definitive biography of the silver screen legend is “a moving, lively, witty, sad book that revives once more the long dead Count Dracula” (Kirkus Reviews). |
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... film society, which showed classics and provided informative notes for its members. I soon became its president, and our screenings reflected my interest in the German and Soviet silent cinema. At the time, film—and, even worse, writing ...
... Films, came out in 1974.) For the first version of The Count, I thanked the Romanian Film Archive, the Hungarian Film Archive, Dr. Karolyne Berzeli of the National Theater Library in Budapest, Dr. Géza Staud of the National Theater ...
... film comes alive, and when he is not, the film generally becomes a species of the “undead.” Dracula and Frankenstein (1931) were the first sound horror films, and two of the most successful ever made. They spawned a number of sequels ...
... film's length—the Lugosi character revel in the free exercise of his frequently evil will. Why, sage moralists might ask, did the people go? Why did these films, roundly belittled by the critics, pack them in? Why did people pay to see ...
... films are listed by their date of release. Records indicate that Lugosi appeared in his first film, A Leopárd (The Leopard), for the Star Film Company in Budapest in 1917.28 This company—oddly, its logo was a bat—wanted to appeal to ...
Contenido
DRACULATHE FILM | |
FAME | |
THE PEAK | |
THE COMEBACK | |
THE WAR YEARS | |
THE DECLINE | |
THE FINAL YEARS | |
EPILOGUE | |
FILMOGRAPHY | |
LUGOSIS EARNINGS | |