The devil made Jess Franco, but Christopher Lee made him behave… barely.
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Christopher Lee.
Acting
Lee's dry shade toward Franco is *chef's kiss*.
Direction
Greggy wrangles two legends before they vanished.
Production
Barely legal archive footage of Soledad Miranda's final role.
Director
David Gregory
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Franco shot his Count Dracula in 1970 for precisely $150,000—Lee worked for scale just to play Stoker's actual text.
Klaus Kinski appears only in archive footage because even dead, he was too chaotic to interview. Franco called him 'my Renfield' with genuine affection.
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