The intriguing, over-wrought film is a tragic, coming-of-age melodrama from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright William Inge""s original screenplay - it was Inge""s first story written directly for the screen and he received a nomination (and the film""s sole Oscar) for the Best Original Story and Screenplay for his work (one of the film""s two Academy Award nominations).The next morning, Malcolm, Ellie and Alexander hiked hrough the misty woods and found the motionless body of Caesar - barely alive.Inappropriately, Scarlett objects o wearing black mourning clothes in memory of her recently-deceased husband, and tries on a colorful bonnet.The vampire offers "very old wine" from a bottle and pours it into a glass for his guest.Renfield asks: "Aren""t you drinking?" Dracula replies with another well-remembered, mellifluous line that he never partakes:I never drink.