Sandor (fictional character)
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Sandor is a fictional character in the 1936 Universal Studios horror film Dracula's Daughter. He is played by actor-director Irving Pichel.
Sandor is the driver, procurer, and general factotum to Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden), the film's titular character. However, he also freely interacts with the countess verbally in a way that is more complex than a master-servant relationship would permit. For example, when the countess burns her father's corpse and proclaims herself free of the curse of vampirism, Sandor manipulates her by twisting her hopeful words. When she describes the happy fluttering of birds' wings and the barking of dogs, Sandor cynically flips them into images of bat wings and the sound of "barking because there are wolves about."
Toward the end of the film, we learn that Sandor is not himself a vampire, but rather a mortal whom Countess Zaleska has promised make a vampire. This is made clear when her romantic attentions turn to Dr. Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger), arousing murderous jealousy in a bow-wielding Sandor. We are left to ponder why he allowed himself to be strung along by the countess, the ultimate circumstances that would have resulted in her granting him his wish for immortality, and why she felt she could tell him of her desire to be free of vampirism without arousing his anger at feeling betrayed.
