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Dracula (1973/I) (TV)

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• Jack Palance admitted to being glad once the film was completed. A method actor, he felt that he was "becoming" Dracula more than he wanted.
  
  
• According to the featurette on the DVD, Jack Palance had been offered the role of Dracula several more times after his first performance, but he turned them all down.
  
  
• The first film of Sarah Douglas.
  
  

• This made-for-TV special was canceled the first night that it was supposed to be broadcast because of the resignation of disgraced Vice President Spiro Agnew.
  
  
• As Holmwood and Van Helsing explore Dracula's castle, they briefly stop to examine an iron maiden torture device, most likely a reference to the Bram Stoker short story "The Squaw," in which the main character meets his end inside such a device.
  
  

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