Although not a major box-office success at the time (due to the fact that it had lesser-known, older performers), the subtle, sophisticated and serious film was critically-acclaimed." Renfield has been hired to arrange for Dracula""s relocation to a neighborhood in England where he will lease a ruined and deserted English abbey named Carfax Abbey.The flip-side of this light-hearted buddy picture was its major competitor of the year, the X-rated, darkMidnight Cowboy (1969)with its anti-heroes Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Joe Buck (Jon Voight).]The film""s sole Academy Award nomination was for Nora Ephron""s Best Original Screenplay - written directly for the screen - it lost to Tom Schulman""s script for director Peter Weir""sDead Poets Society.