jamesbobo62

Finally, Ub Iwerks gets his due. I caught this on the Ovation channel on July 5, 2007. It will be repeated so watch it if you can. Direct TV carries Ovation, so does Verizon Fios. My one gripe about the film: while Flip the Frog is mentioned and shown it does not tell you that the first Flip cartoon was made in color. This was very rare for 1930 and two years before Disney's first color cartoon. To be fair, only a two-strip color film was available at the time. Disney's cartoon used a newly developed three-strip color process. Other than that it is the most accurate film I've seen on the subject. I'm old enough to remember seeing Flip and Willie Whopper cartoons when they were shown on TV in the 1950's and I enjoyed them a lot. Now, they are all but forgotten.

I haven't seen this film since it was released in theaters in 1972. Now that I have all 7 Christopher Lee as Dracula films I am able to finally compare them all. First, no one is saying this is the best of the series, but from reading some of the comments you would think this is the worst film ever made. I thought this was better than Taste The Blood of Dracula. My main beef with the film is the background music, but if you can get passed that you will find yourself in for a reasonably good time. Lee puts in a good performance as usual and he finally gets to say a line that is from the book. Lee would argue with the producers that they should follow Bram Stoker's novel more faithfully and perhaps they threw him a bone with this line of dialog.