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Son of Dracula is a american film of genre Fantasy directed by Robert Siodmak released in USA on 5 november 1943 with Lon Chaney, Jr.

Son of Dracula (1943)

Son of Dracula
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Released in USA 5 november 1943
Length 1h20
Directed by ,    ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Fantasy,    Horror
Rating60% 3.0481853.0481853.0481853.0481853.048185

Son of Dracula is a 1943 American horror film directed by Robert Siodmak – his first film for Universal studios – with a screenplay based on an original story by his brother Curt. The film stars Lon Chaney, Jr. and his frequent co-star Evelyn Ankers. Notably it is the first film where a vampire is actually shown physically transforming into a bat on screen. It is the third in Universal Studios' Dracula trilogy, preceded by Dracula and Dracula's Daughter, though Dracula appeared in subsequent Universal films teamed with other monsters.

Synopsis

Hungarian Count Alucard (Lon Chaney Jr.), a mysterious stranger, arrives in the U.S. invited by Katherine Caldwell (Louise Allbritton), one of the daughters of New Orleans plantation owner Colonel Caldwell (George Irving). Shortly after his arrival, the Colonel dies of apparent heart failure and leaves his wealth to his two daughters, with Claire receiving all the money and Katherine his estate "Dark Oaks." Katherine, a woman with a taste for the morbid, has been secretly dating Alucard and eventually marries him, shunning her long-time boyfriend Frank Stanley. Frank confronts the couple and tries to shoot Alucard, but the bullets pass through the Count's body and hit Katherine, seemingly killing her.

Actors

Lon Chaney, Jr.

(Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard)
Robert Paige

(Frank Stanley)
Evelyn Ankers

(Claire Caldwell)
Louise Allbritton

(Katherine 'Kay' Caldwell)
Frank Craven

(Dr. Harry Brewster)
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Dracula

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Universal Monsters

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913) The Werewolf (1913) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Man Who Laughs (1928) The Last Performance (1929) The Last Warning (1929) The Will of the Dead Man (1930) The Cat Creeps (1930) Dracula (1931) Drácula (1931) Frankenstein (1931) Island of Lost Souls (1932) The Mummy (1932) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Old Dark House (1932) Boo (1932) The Invisible Man (1933) The Black Cat (1934) Werewolf of London (1935) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) The Raven (1935) The Invisible Ray (1936) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Night Key (1937) Tower of London (1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Son of Frankenstein (1939) The Invisible Woman (1940) The Mummy's Hand (1940) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) Black Friday (1940) The Black Cat (1941) The Wolf Man (1941) Horror Island (1941) Man-Made Monster (1941) Invisible Agent (1942) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) The Mummy's Tomb (1942) Night Monster (1942) The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) The Mad Ghoul (1943) Phantom of the Opera (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Calling Dr. Death (1943) Captive Wild Woman (1943) Weird Woman (1944) Dead Man's Eyes (1944) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) The Climax (1944) Jungle Woman (1944) House of Frankenstein (1944) The Mummy's Curse (1944) The Mummy's Ghost (1944) Strange Confession (1945) The Frozen Ghost (1945) The Jungle Captive (1945) Pillow of Death (1945) House of Dracula (1945) She-Wolf of London (1946) The Brute Man (1946) The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) House of Horrors (1946) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) The Strange Door (1951) Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) The Black Castle (1952) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) It Came from Outer Space (1953) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Cult of the Cobra (1955) Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) This Island Earth (1955) Tarantula (1955) Revenge of the Creature (1955) Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956) The Mole People (1956) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The Monolith Monsters (1957) Monster on the Campus (1958) The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) Curse of the Undead (1959) The Leech Woman (1960) Dark Intruder (1965) Mad Monster Party? (1967) Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972) Young Frankenstein (1974) Dracula (1979) The Halloween That Almost Wasn't (1979) The Monster Squad (1987) Darkman (1990) Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) House of Frankenstein (miniseries) (1997) The Mummy (1999) Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999) Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman (2000) The Mummy Returns (2001) Van Helsing (2004) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) House of the Wolf Man (2009) The Wolfman (2010) Frankenweenie (2012) Hotel Transylvania (2012) Dracula Untold (2014) Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) The Mummy (2017)

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