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Dracula (1931)

CastBela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Manuel Arbo, Eduardo Arozamena, Carmen Guerrero, Barry Norton, Pablo Alvarez Rubio, Lupita Tovar, Carlos Villarias
Year released1931
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A hand, then a woman, come out of coffins. (0:05)

Solicitor Renfield tells Count Dracula, "... I’m a bit worried about my luggage..." (0:12)

Renfield appears to lose consciousness. (0:17)

Man, referring to Renfield: "Why, he’s mad... Why, the man’s gone crazy." (0:20)

Newspaper article: "Sole survivor a raving maniac. His craving to devour ants, flies and other small live things to obtain their blood, puzzles scientists. At present he is under observation in Doctor Seward’s Sanitarium near London. " (0:21)

Dracula: "Might I inquire if you are the Dr. Seward whose sanitarium is at Whitby?" (0:24)

Sign: "Seward Sanitarium" (0:29)

Attendant Martin answers Renfield, "You do, you looney." (0:30)

Professor Van Helsing: "Dr. Seward, your patient Renfield... is obsessed with the idea that he must devour living things..." (0:32)

Seward tells Van Helsing, "... Renfield’s cravings have always been for small living things..."
Renfield, referring to Mina Seward: ”They might giver her bad dreams, Prof. Van Helsing. Bad dreams.”
Martin, referring to Renfield: ”He’s crazy.” (0:32)

Mina tells her fiance John Harker, "... when the dream came, it seemed the whole room was filled with mist."
John: ”Dear, it was only a dream.”
”Darling, we’re going to forget all about these dreams...”
Van Helsing asks Mina, ”Is there anything that might have brought this dream on?”
”And the face in the dream...”
Mina: ”Since the morning after the dream.”
Mina: ”I had a frightful dream a few nights ago...”
Seward, referring to Dracula: ”LIke a madman.”
Van Helsing: ”Sometimes they take the form of wolves...”
Harker: ”... that’s the sort of thing I expect one of the patients here to say.” (0:38)

Renfield tells Van Helsing, "God will not damn a lunatic’s soul." (0:48)

The maid faints. (0:48)

Harker tells Van Helsing, referring to Mina, "You’re driving her crazy."
Van Helsing: ”Mr. Harker, that is what you should be worrying about.” (0:52)

Seward: "Now John, please, please be patient."
Renfield: ”Isn’t this a strange conversation for men who aren’t crazy?”
Seward: ”Renfield, you’re compelling me to put you in a straight jacket.”
Renfield: ”You forget, doctor, that madmen have great strength.” (0:54)

Martin tells a nurse, "The doctor’s pet looney is loose again." (0:56)

Mina tells Harker, "It’s been like a nightmare."
Harker: ”I’ve been awfully worried about you.”
Mina tells nurse Briggs, ”Don’t worry.” (1:01)

Harker asks Van Helsing, "Have you gone crazy?" (1:04)

Briggs tells Martin, "He’s crazy."
Martin: ”They’re all crazy. They’re all crazy except you and me.” (1:06)

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