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His last dozen films have ranged from bombastic dreck ( Bram Stoker's Dracula , The Godfather Part III , The Cotton Club ) to infantile dreck ( Jack , Captain Eo ) to biographical dreck ( Tucker: The Man and His Dream ) to pretentious dreck ( One From the Heart , New York Stories ). He has also been producer for an astonishing volume of bad cinema and television, including NBC's The Odyssey ; the 1992 movie Wind ; and White Dwarf , a sci-fi movie for Fox.
In the 1931 Dracula , however, which like Nosferatu is based on Bram Stoker's novel, Bela Lugosi has to be impaled through the heart in his coffin, whereupon he emits a strange little disappointed groan that remains a benchmark of decorum when compared with the hissing and writhing deaths of modern screen vampires.
Occasionally, the identity of a dedicatee has remained a mystery for years, with speculation bandied back and forth endlessly in Notes and Queries . Evidently, Bram Stoker's dedication of Dracula (1897) was such a one:
In Bram's novel, Boone is vaguely dangerous, a plausible suspect in Whale's death, but Fraser plays him (ingratiatingly) as a lovable lunk, and the conception removes whatever tension the material might have had.
In Bram Stoker's Dracula , by contrast, the new recruit must also drink the vampire's blood, but the transformation is far pokier, requiring weeks and weeks, and if the vampire happens to get stuck with a bowie knife before the process is completed, it immediately goes into reverse.