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Rosenberg is an assumed name taken for professional reasons and he is actually the grandson of Fritz Van Helsing. The leaving the castle nicely apes the generic Hammer mob scenes, with an effective production of mist from the Count.Īfter several misadventures in the City, a mix up with coffins that sees Dracula rising at a funeral and some abortive attempts to feed amongst other things, Renfield gains the whereabouts of Cindy and it is time for the Count to woo her.Īt this stage we meet Cindy’s shrink and on-off lover Geoffrey Rosenberg (Richard Benjamin). It is off to America and a search for Cindy. He retires to his coffin with the magazine but is awakened by Renfield as representatives of the Romanian Government are at the castle door (recognised as such by the fact that they wear shoes!) It transpires that the Comrade Count has 48 hours to vacate his castle before it is turned into a youth training facility.
Dracula’s life was saved by the cigarette case Renfield had bought him. There is also description of how he nearly perished at the tip of Van Helsing’s (whose name is changed to Fritz rather than Abraham) stake. The book was not set in 1931 but he knew Cindy then as Mina Harker. The film takes elements from the book but changes them. The number of bites is important as, we find out later, it takes three bites to turn someone into a vampire.Īlso interesting was the described England episode. He knew her in Warsaw in 1356 where he bit her once, he knew her in England in 1931, where he bit her twice. She is Dracula’s love, an old soul he has met before.
On the cover is New York model Cindy Sondheim (Susan Saint James). He quickly casts them into the fire as they are smut and asks for his fashion magazine. Dracula plays the piano as, outside, the wolves howl and we get the line, “Children of the night, shut up!” Dracula calls Renfield (Arte Johnson) as his blood has not been served at body temperature and asks for his magazines. There is also some nice spoofing of the book, such as in the next scene.
Now, the perma-tanned actor might not have been my first choice to play a vampire – after all a creature who has not seen the sun for 700+ years is unlikely to have such a tan and yet Hamilton really looks the part, he captures well the look of the gentlemanly Count as portrayed by Hollywood and later we get some lovely derogatory banter from Dracula himself regarding his attire – “How would you like to go around looking like a head waiter for 700 years?” We see Dracula rise from his coffin and the first thing we should note is that Dracula is played by George Hamilton. Love at First Bite is a gentle spoof of the Dracula story that (unlike Mel Brooks’ later film Dracula – Dead and Loving It) takes many leads from, rather than directly apes, the 1931 Dracula.
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