AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

: MASSIVE SETTINGS IN % “DRACULA” FILM.

Some of the most picturesque setting?; in the history of the screen are included ■in “Dracula,” Universal’s weird mystery drama which comes to tile Princess. Theatre to-night. , :

Many of the earlier (scenes are laid in apd .about the crumbling stone castle <rf Count Dracula, an ancient ruin whicf has been unoccupied for 500 years-—except by Dracula and other “undead” vampires who return nightly fiom the grave, and; make of the castle a veritable /house. of horrors. Some/ of the most massive sets in the history of were constructed for this picture, showing various chambers in an advanced? state of disorderlj .with stone balustrades and pillars fallen into disordered ruins, and the entire interior festooned with cobwebs .; There are hair-raising scenes m a graveyard, with a female vampire, risen? from her grave* wandering disconsolately among the tombstones. Opening sequences depict a picturesque inn in the mountains of Transylvania,’ and a , rocky mountain pass on a foggy nigh|, with wolves., howling in the darkless. , . . ;./vj. M... . these settings is enacted what is said to be the screen s strangest story, with, the lamous Bela Lugdsi in'the -title role of Count Dracula, land a cast which also includes David Manners, Hblen Chandler. Ed-wardte-ynn--Sloan,., Dwight. Erye, Frances Dade and Herbert Bunston.