I had started to watch the surviving feature length episodes of tv anthology series
Mystery and Imagination. (1968-70)
Following
Dracula last night, the third story, i've decided to leave the remainder until the new year. Well made and acted it's easy to see they are made for the small screen and are predominantly studio bound, at times seeming very stagey. Having said that the sequence of Dracula rising from his grave is very nicely done.
Dracula for example due to it's confines dismisses Jonathan Harker's original visit to Transylvania and begins with the Count as played by Denholm Elliott (Not someone i would have cast but he's actually not bad and sports some nasty fangs) in London smoothing into the lives of Dr. Seward and Lucy Weston (Susan George). Amazingly Renfield, it turns out is actually Harker driven mad by his ordeal at Castle Dracula.
So not wanting to waste precious movie watching time when i could be taking in horror, classic ghost stories and British sleaze, i'll return to
Mystery and Imagination in January 2017.
Denholm Elliott as Dracula.