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The Stoker estate won its lawsuit, and all existing
prints of Nosferatu were ordered destroyed. However, a
number of pirated copies of the movie survived to the
present era, where they entered the public domain.
Nosferatu was also remade in 1979 by Werner Herzog.
Nosferatu by Herzog
In 1924, with the permission of the Stoker estate,
the story was adapted for the stage by Hamilton Deane,
in an English touring production starring Deane himself
as Van Helsing.
In 1927, the play, as substantially
revised by John L. Balderston, opened on Broadway in a
production starring Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan as
the count and Van Helsing, respectively.
Dracula in popular culture - Dracula by
Tod Browning
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