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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: World Dracula Day
Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 16:12:10 -0400
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On 5/26/2024 2:07 PM, trotsky wrote:
> On 5/26/24 12:04 PM, moviePig wrote:
>> On 5/26/2024 6:04 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> May 26, in honor of the publication of the original novel.
>>>
>>> What will you watch to celebrate?
>>>
>>> I’ve got the Dan Curtis/Jack Palance version going right now with music
>>> from dark shadows. It’s a pretty good and a pretty faithful adaptation.
>>>
>>> Available on the Peacock, it’s a good copy in 16:9 with the ads front
>>> loaded so it runs uninterrupted.
>>>
>>> Next up, I found the excellent 1977 Louis Jourdon version on the gray.
>>
>> The key scene in any telling of the original story is the first vision 
>> of transformed Lucy.  Notably, Coppola rather blew it (along with the 
>> ending).  My vote for that one scene (and I've seen them all multiple 
>> times) goes to John Badham's 1979 version...
>>
> Is that the one with Frank Langella?

Laurence Olivier, but yeah.