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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Dracula can be found here.
No. The exterior was built on the backlot at Bray Studios, with a design by Bernard Robinson. In the long shots, the turrets (and mountains) are actually part of a matte painting by Les Bowie. The interiors were also designed by Robinson and built at Bray.
There are at least two scenes for which stills exist, but which did not make it to the final edit of the film. The first is the decayed corpse of Jonathan Harker. The second is Dracula's prolonged disintegration sequence at the end. The latter is rumoured to have been included in Japanese releases, but no print appears to exist.
Although the colours are certainly beautifully and vibrantly restored in the new print, all the footage has been seen before - just never together in one version.The 2007 restoration includes the original British title card, which reads simply "Dracula", in ornate, gothic script.A few seconds of extra blood are seen in Lucy's staking scene. These were in the original US release, but not in the UK version.Contrary to rumour, this restored version does NOT contain any of the supposed Japanese footage of Dracula's disintegration, or of Jonathan Harker's decayed corpse. Photographic stills exist of both, but no actual film has ever been found.
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