Son of Dracula (Lon Chaney) [1943] @.avi

Lon Chaney Jr. ... Count Dracula (as Lon Chaney)
Robert Paige ... Frank Stanley
Louise Allbritton ... Katherine Caldwell
Evelyn Ankers ... Claire Caldwell
Frank Craven ... Doctor Brewster
J. Edward Bromberg ... Professor Lazlo


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036376/


SON OF DRACULA (Universal, 1943), directed by Robert Siodmak, from an original story by Curtis Siodmak, the third in the cycle of Universal thrillers to center around the Dracula legend, and the first of the 1940s, ranks one of the best in the series. Its star, Lon Chaney Jr., famous for his previous role in the horror cycle as Lawrence Talbot in THE WOLF MAN (Universal, 1941), which would be followed by some more sequels throughout the 1940s, might have seemed an unlikely choice in playing the blood-sucking vampire, but on the contrary, Junior Chaney brings new life into the old vampire, sporting the usual black cape and an added touch of a mustache. Overlooking the hypnotic glassy eye stare created at best by Bela Lugosi in DRACULA (Universal, 1931), he very well has proven himself as the fine horror film actor, for the time being anyway.