It might have proved a viable idea to emphasize the lock-up-your-daughters (and sweethearts) theme of the Dracula story, identifying the Count as an object of male sexual rivalry and envy. But this idea, if that's what the idea indeed was, is lost in the general turmoil, the swirling atmospherics, the thunder, the overexcited strings in John Williams's musical score, the nauseating Ken Russell-ish handling of a lunatic asylum. Director John Badham, who ushered John Travolta to sex-symbol status in Saturday Night Fever, tries to do the same here for Frank Langella, right down to the titillating boot-level introductory shots. Langella, all flash and flourish and deep-dish eyes, comes on so hot and heavy as a ladykiller that it is unbelievable none of the gentlemen in his presence delivers him a sock in the jaw or at least a "See here, my good man." With Kate Nelligan, Laurence Olivier, and Donald Pleasence. (1979) — Duncan Shepherd
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