I'm going to take a break from the movies for a couple of days and look at Dracula in other mediums. Today it's radio.
The May 2, 1974 episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater, like usual started off with the creaking door, then EG Marshall introduced Geogre Lowther's adaptation of Dracula, directed by Himon Brown.
This adaptation had a contemporary twist: it updated the story to Connecticut. Mercedes McCambridge plays Mina Harker, come to visit her friend Lucy, who has fallen ill- secretly the victim of the new guy in the neighborhood.
For a die-hard horror fan, it's kind of odd, hearing the actress who voiced the demon in The Exorcist also be woman in peril, but McCambridge had the range, being nominated twice for the Academy Award in one season for best supporting actress for two different movies, and winning for one of them.
The ending kind of falls flat, rushed to resolution in the less than an hour they had to work with; Marshall provides an ending, but there's just something about the way it works that makes me think the author had planned on perhaps continuing the story and this was merely the first chapter.
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