Chaney as Dracula?

[jerod]

Awesome image Count_Zirock! The Sr. Frankenstein monster is really creepy.

[Count_Zirock]

Awesome image Count_Zirock! The Sr. Frankenstein monster is really creepy.

The Chaney-as-Dracula shots aren't online, and my scanner's not working right now.

[jerod]

OK. Thanks for the clarification. Still a great image.

[horror1o1]

There's talk of this topic in a doc on The Dracula Legacy collection for anyone that owns it.

[jerod]

I'd posted this on another site to mixed reviews. I tried to show Sr. in two versions. One is based on the Stoker description and the other on the Lugosi stage version from the same era:

[Haunted hearse]

I'd posted this on another site to mixed reviews. I tried to show Sr. in two versions. One is based on the Stoker description and the other on the Lugosi stage version from the same era:

I'm fine with the Chaney version based on the stage play, except the pointed ears.  We'll I'd have a problem with the pointed ears, as far as shots where people who see Dracula, don't realize he's not a regular human being.  The shot of Chaney as the Literary Dracula, is excellent.

[Count_Zirock]

The images from MMP assume that, with Chaney as its star, Carl Laemmle Sr would've kept it the big-budget, faithful adaptation that was originally intended. So, his early scenes show an elderly, white haired, moustached monster with pointed ears and fangs. A later scene, showing the youthful Count confronting Van Helsing, still has the long hair (covering the eartips) and moustache. Really wish my scanner was working!

[Count_Zirock]

Haven't had a chance to scan in the images, but here are some cellphone snaps from Mad Monster Party #1 of Lon Chaney as Count Dracula.

[jerod]

Count Z- Those are creepy! I like how they incorporate the moustache like would have been in the novel. Seems like a plasusible option for a pre-Lugosi Dracula.

[Count_Zirock]

Unfortunately, they didn't credit whoever did the Chaney photomanips. Probably a staffer.

Count Z- Those are creepy! I like how they incoporate the moustache like would have been in the novel. Seems like a plasusible option for a pre-Lugosi Dracula.

Well, had Chaney lived to play Dracula, the film would've been much closer to the book. It probably would've stayed set in Victorian times, and we'd have had Arthur Holmwood and Quincy Morris added to the mix. Dr. Seward wouldn't have been Mina's father, either-- that was a change made for the play. It would've been a much more epic film, like "Hunchback" and "Phantom."

[Wizard_Of_Ed]

What's this Mad Monster Party #1 book?

Is this DRacula's Daughter script mentioned the James Whale version?

[Wizard_Of_Ed]

Chaney Sr. may have made a great Dracula but I felt his son was a TERRIBLE one.

[Count_Zirock]

What's this Mad Monster Party #1 book?

It's a magazine, actually.
http://www.madmonster.com

Is this DRacula's Daughter script mentioned the James Whale version?

Supposedly. At least, an early draft, from what I understand.

[Haunted hearse]

Chaney Sr. may have made a great Dracula but I felt his son was a TERRIBLE one.

Of course now that Johnny Depp has played a Vampire, I am gainning new appreciation for Count Alucard.

[Count_Zirock]

Of course now that Johnny Depp has played a Vampire, I am gainning new appreciation for Count Alucard.

Also, I'd have much preferred being serviced by Louise Allbritton than Helena Bonham Carter in a Bozo wig.