Love At First Bite
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| Love At First Bite | |
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 Cover for DVD version of movie |
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| Directed by | Stan Dragoti |
| Produced by | Joel Freeman |
| Written by | Robert Kaufman |
| Starring | George Hamilton Susan St. James Richard Benjamin Arte Johnson Dick Shawn |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 13 April 1979 |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Love At First Bite is a 1979 comedy horror movie directed by Stan Dragoti and written by Robert Kaufman, using characters originally created by Bram Stoker. It stars George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin and Arte Johnson.
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[edit] Main Cast
- George Hamilton as Count Vladimir Dracula
- Susan Saint James as Cindy Sondheim
- Richard Benjamin as Dr. Jeffery Rosenberg/Van Helsing
- Dick Shawn as Lieutenant Ferguson NYPD
- Arte Johnson as Renfield
[edit] Plot
The infamous vampire Count Dracula (Hamilton) is expelled from his castle by the Communist government of Romania. The world-weary Count travels to New York City with his bug-eating assistant Renfield (Johnson), and establishes himself in a hotel, but only after a mix-up at the airport causes his coffin to be accidentally sent to be the centerpiece in a funeral at a black church. Dracula proceeds to suffer the general ego-crushing that comes from modern life in the Big Apple as he pursues flaky fashion model Cindy Soundheim (Saint James), whom he has long believed to be the current reincarnation of his true love. Dracula is ineptly pursued in turn by Soundheim's psychiatrist and long-suffering quasi-boyfriend Jeffery Rosenberg (Benjamin), who is the grandson of Dracula's old nemesis Abraham Van Helsing. (He changed his name to something Jewish "for professional reasons.") In the end, as a major blackout hits the city, Cindy pays off her (enormous) bill to Rosenburg and willingly becomes Dracula's vampire bride. As bats, they fly off to Rio de Janeiro together, leaving Dracula's cape with Rosenburg, who hopes that it will help him on the dating scene.
[edit] Trivia
Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford, the stars of the TV show The Jeffersons, both make cameo appearances in the film.
In one of the great ironies of film, Dracula, who, as a vampire, cannot appear in sunlight and has very pale skin, is played by George Hamilton, famed for his perpetual deep suntan.
[edit] Sequel
Various serious attempts have been mounted at making a sequel to the film, but none have yet succeeded.
[edit] External links
| Characters of Dracula |
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| Dracula | Jonathan Harker | Mina Harker | Abraham Van Helsing | Lucy Westenra | Renfield |
| Film Adaptations of Dracula |
| Nosferatu | Dracula (1931) | House of Dracula | Dracula (1958) | Count Dracula (1969) | Dracula (1979) | Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht | Love At First Bite | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Dracula: Dead and Loving It | Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary |
