Dracula (1931 English-language film) the screen. With this mesmerizing performance, Dracula became Bela Lugosi's signature role, his Dracula a cultural icon, and he himself a legend in the classic Universal Horror film series. However, Dracula would ultimately become a role which would prove to be both a blessing and a curse. Despite his earlier stage successes in a variety of roles, from the moment Lugosi donned the cape on screen, it would forever see him typecast as the Count. Browning would go on to direct Lugosi once more in another vampire thriller, "Mark of the Vampire", a 1935 remake of his lost silent film
Dracula in the Provinces do as well as expected" in the Italian box office. Fulci would declare it among his favorite films he directed. The film was released with the English-language titles "Young Dracula" and "Dracula in the Provinces". Dracula in the Provinces Dracula in the Provinces () is a 1975 Italian film directed by Lucio Fulci. Costante Nicosia (Lando Buzzanca), a businessman of Sicilian origins, is a boorish and irascible, man having married for wealth. He is the new boss of a recently inherited toothpaste factory and the owner of a local Rome basketball team. Nicosia is abusive to his employees and to