Top cast:Jacob Tremblay,Owen Wilson,Izabela Vidovic
Director:Arturo Ambrosio&Luigi Maggi
Genre:Western
Region:Spain
Year:2003
Storyline:W.Murnau.In Murnau""s film, the rodent-like Dracula (Max Schreck) was renamed "Graf Orlock." [The film was released in England asDracula.]Since then, there have been about a dozen ""true"" film adaptations of the Stoker novel, and literally hundreds of otherDraculasequels, farces, parodies, loose adaptations, and other vampirish variations (including the "blaxploitation"Blaculafilms of he early 70s).Juliet""s doting, indulgent father maintains that she is still too young to marry, and Paris is urged to wait two more years until she will be "ripe to be a bride":But saying o""er what I have said before, My child is yet a stranger in the world.He reacted with nervous pacing after she agreed to marry him.He then confessed that he couldn""t legally marry her, but could take her on as his mistress, and protect her from the wind and other external pressures by whisking her away from her dismal circumstances:Letty: You""re acting awful strange - !Roddy: Well, you see, Letty - as it happens - I got a wife already - Letty, let me take you away where the wind can never follow!With a new dilemma facing her, she decided to reject his proposal and turned away.The film""s poster promised:The Screen Dares to Open the Strange and Savage Pages of a Shocking Best-Seller!The film was nominated for seven Academy Award nominations and received four major accolades: director Billy Wilder scored a double-win, both as Best Director (Wilder""s second directorial nomination and his first Oscar win), and co-writer of the Best Screenplay (his fifth screenwriting nomination and first win).