Dracula and Son

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Dracula père et fils
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Directed by	Edouard Molinaro
Produced by	Alain Poiré
Written by	Novel: Claude Klotz Screenplay: Alain Godard
Starring	Christopher Lee Bernard Menez
Music by	Vladimir Cosma
Cinematography	Alain Levent
Editing by	Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon
Release date(s)	1976
Running time	96 min.
Language	French
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Dracula père et fils was a French comedy about a vampire father and son. It was never intended to be a follow-up to the Dracula series from Hammer productions. Gaumont productions just felt they could not choose a more successful title, under Christopher Lee's strong protest.

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On its U.S. release, it was heavily edited down to 75 minutes, supposedly to speed up its rhythm and make it funnier. As a result, the plot and the tone of the film have been severely modified.
As the film was shot almost entirely in French language, Christopher Lee dubbed his own voice for the English language soundtrack. Then again, in the American version, he was dubbed by a totally different actor faking occasional ludicrous foreign accents.
Bernard Menez had also appeared in another French vampire parody, Tendre Dracula (1973) by Pierre Grunstein with co-star Peter Cushing.