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Tarfumes.com - Love at First Bite
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List Price: $9.99
Our Price: $4.76
Your Save: $ 5.23 ( 52% )
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Manufacturer: Orion Home Video
Starring: George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Dick Shawn, Arte Johnson
Directed By: Stan Dragoti
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302890266
Format: Color
ISBN: 6302890268
Label: Orion Home Video
Manufacturer: Orion Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Orion Home Video
Release Date: 1993-06-16
Running Time: 93
Studio: Orion Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Dracula has never been so funny and dashing - to say nothing of being an awesome disco dancer - as in this "delightful movie with a bang-up cast" (The New York Times) led by the epitome of suave, George Hamilton, and featuring first-rate performances from Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Dick Shawn, Arte Johnson, Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford! Evicted from Transylvania, Dracula (Hamilton) goes to New York to make Cindy (Saint James), a model with an old soul, his eternal bride. To his delight, she quickly falls for his necking style. But when her would-be boyfriend (Benjamin), a descendant of the vampire-killing Van Helsings, meets his romantic rival, he's determined to put a stake in the count's plans!
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Love at first bite
Comment: I saw this movie years ago and loved it. It is so campy that it is hilarious. I bought this for a relative and they thought I was nuts until she saw it. She loved it too!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love At First Bite
Comment: Love at First Bite
This movie is just as funny now as it was back in the late 70's. The only thing that sucks about this movie is the disco scene. They replaced the song, "I love The Night Life" for some other gay song. That takes awayfrom this movie. Other than that, this movie is funny.
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Summary: Fangs for the Memories
Comment: George Hamilton is the last of the great Draculas. I didn't care for the Frank Langela remake, or the Klaus Kinsky remake of Nosferatu Eine Symphone des Grauens as Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht. It's gotten steadily worse with Gary Oldman and Mark Warren as Dracula and William DaFoe as Max Schreck (a very real actor from the Max Reinhardt troupe that produced Conrad Veidt and Paul Weggener. Schreck's wife played Hutter's nurse in the hospital scene.)
But back to Hamilton, he played a matinee era Dracula. He represented a dead period of romance, and the grand gesture in a jaded age. The now classic scene of Dracula dancing in a disco, technically it looked more like a tango, bringing it back to the era of the Deane/Balderston play and Lugosi movie, which was the 1920's through the early 30's. Jill St. John from certain angles reminded me of Greta Schröder in Nosferatu Eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922).
Hamilton's Dracula always maintained his dignity even while in his underpants, and Renfield massaging him. When he seduces the Cindy Sondheim character in the disco, in a worldess scene, he looks cold and imperious and she just smiles. What would've been a shock ending in any other movie was Dracula rescuing the heroine from a world of quick anonymous sex, drugs, therapy and jealous-neurotic relationships. Dracula looks downright misty eyed when he says, "In a world without romance, I'd rather be dead."
Shades of the actor Hamilton could've been
I'd love to see Timothy Dalton in the part one day.
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Summary: A great movie - past tense...
Comment: This movie was hilarious when I first saw it and still has it's moments, but it's hopelessly dated. Maybe in another 10 years.
For the confirmed 70's, George Hamilton or disco fan.
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Summary: I know it's corny, but I like it.
Comment: George Hamilton, as Count Dracula in 1979 New York, in search of his re-born soul-mate who happens to be a supermodel just waiting for the right man to rescue her from all this carrier-woman stuff. Viewed by today's standards, parts of it are sexist, parts of it are racist, and parts of it are really dated. If you were to see this for the first time today, you probably wouldn't like it.
That said, I loved this movie when I was a kid in the 80's, and I still enjoy it now, mostly for the nostalgia. George Hamilton is his ever cool, debonair self, with solid one-liners, and Renfield (Arte Johnson) is a crack-up.
This would be a great campy double-feature with Zorro, The Gay Blade.
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