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Dark Shadows
In 1973, a major television movie version starring
Jack Palance was produced by Dan Curtis, best known for
producing the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows from a
script by sci-fi favorite Richard Matheson.
Filmed in
Yugoslavia and England, it was a relatively faithful to
the novel, though it tried to paint Dracula as a tragic,
rather than evil, character in search of his lost love.
It also drew the connection between Dracula and the
historical figure of Vlad the Impaler, which was a
popular notion at the time (see above).
In these
respects, it, too, is a close fore-runner of Coppola's
later film.
Dracula in popular culture - Blood for
Dracula
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