Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)

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Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)
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Directed byWilliam Edwards
Written byWilliam Edwards
Produced byWilliam Edwards
Starring
  • Vince Kelley
  • Ann Hollis
  • Bill Whitton
  • Libby Caculus
Edited byLudwig Moner
Production
companies
  • Whit Boyd Productions
  • Vega International Pictures
Distributed byArt Films
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) is a 1969 American erotic [1] horror comedy film written, produced, and directed by William Edwards.

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Cast

Production

Filming took place in Los Angeles, California, and Texas. [2] [ better source needed ]

Release

Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) was theatrically released in 1969.

In April 1970, sheriff's deputies in Pensacola, Florida, seized prints of Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) and the unrelated Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow) from the Ritz Theatre on N Tarragona St, charging the theater's manager with "two counts of unlawful showing of an obscene film and maintaining a public nuisance". [3]

Home media

In the 1990s, Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) was released on VHS by Something Weird Video. [4] [5] In 2002, Something Weird released the film on DVD as a double feature with 1971's Guess What Happened to Count Dracula.

In May 2023, Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) was released on Blu-ray in by Something Weird in collaboration with American Genre Film Archive. [6] [7]

Reception

In 2017, author Bryan Senn wrote of the film: "Pathetic in all coategories (even the pulchritude on display is spectacularly below-average), Dracula (The Dirty Old Man) will sorely try the patience (and fast-forward button) of anyone not already enamored of The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals. And that's everyone." [8]

In 2023, Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com wrote that, "it's a challenge to sit through [Dracula (The Dirty Old Man)], which doesn't offer considered comedy, just crude riffing from people with a limited imagination for humor." [7] Orndorf concluded that the film is "best viewed as a curiosity from producers desperate to do something with a filmmaking plan that didn't work out." [7]

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  4. Kane, Joe (Phantom of the Movies) (November 17, 1992). "Mondo Video | Mondo Weird Revisited". New York Daily News . New York, New York. p. 56. The tireless sleaze archivists at Something Weird Video [...] add some 45 new titles to their vintage-vid roster this month. Among them are the '60s/'70s Harry Novak flicks Dracula the Dirty Old Man, [...]
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