Dracula at 90

Tod Browning’s Dracula premiered in New York today in 1931, two days ahead of its full US release on Valentine’s Day. The first supernatural horror talkie in US cinema, IIRC, it shows its roots in the play and is pretty stagey compared to the Spanish version made on the same sets at night, let alone later films like James Whale’s Frankenstein, but the Bela Lugosi image of Dracula has stuck despite hundreds of screen versions since and even some before.