A stagecoach arrives in Papago Wells for a night stopover. The four passengers are Count Dracula (<a href=">John Carradine); Mrs. Mary Ann Bentley (<a href=">Marjorie Bennett) and her brother James Underhill (<a href=">William Forrest), wealthy easterners; and a drunken whiskey salesman, Joe Flake (<a href=">George Cisar). Dracula has his beady eyes on Nana (<a href=">Charlita), an Indian girl who works for the stagecoach company. That night a bat lures Nana from the Indian camp. The stagecoach departs the next morning without Dracula, and the Indians find Nana's body. Convinced the whites murdered Nana, the Indians attack the stagecoach and kill the three passengers. Dracula arrives later and steals Underhills papers, plus a picture of Mrs. Bentley's daughter, Betty Bentley (<a href=">Melinda Casey). Billy the Kid (<a href=">Chuck Courtney), a reformed outlaw working as the foreman on the Bentley ranch, and engaged to Betty, goes to Wickenburg to await the stagecoach. He meets Dracula, posing as Betty's uncle, whom she has never seen, at the hotel, where they learn of the slaughter of the passengers by the Indians, but some at the hotel insist it was the work of a vampire. Later, at the ranch, Billy is challenged to a gunfight by one of the hired hands and kills him in self-defense and has to flee town. Betty becomes under the power of her fake-uncle and agrees to marry him. However, Eva Oster (<a href=">Virginia Christine), a ranch worker from some vampire kingdom in Europe, sees the teeth marks on Betty, recognizes them instantly as vampire-inflicted, and notifies Billy. Billy's task now is to rescue Betty while avoiding being arrest by the sheriff and his posse. Dracula goes to the Old West and while riding on a stage learns that one of the passengers is on her way to meet her daughter at her ranch. Accompanying her is her brother who hasn't seen her daughter. Dracula the arranges for some Indians to attack the stage coach and kill everybody. He then assumes her brother's identity and plots to make her daughter his mate. When he shows up he meets the girl who introduces him to her fiancé, William Bonney aka billy the kid, who has reformed. When a European family who had earlier encountered Dracula decides to protect the girl and warns Billy of the danger. Billy then wonders if the man is her uncle. And it doesn't help that no one believes him and the ranch's former foreman is doing what he can to discredit Billy. Despite the ludicrous premise laid out in its title, "Billy the Kid Versus Dracula," of a historical Western gunfighter battling a supernatural, bullet-proof vampire from a Victorian-age gothic horror novel, the film isn't so bad that it's good, and it's not good enough to be other than bad. The filmmakers seem to have taken it seriously, which is often a recipe for such silly screenplays to become unintentionally funny, but the problem is that the film is competently made, despite its silly story and low budget. Yet, preventing the film from being good is that there's nothing intelligent in it, and its relative competence is due largely to it imitating Universal's Dracula series–the wolf's bane, which Universal substituted for garlic from Bram Stoker's novel, gives it away.<br/><br/>Director William Beaudine had directed films since 1915, including Mary Pickford vehicles in the mid-1920s, so the technical competence of this B-picture should be expected. The plotting is especially decent, creating most of the drama during the Discovery and Confirmation phases of the Complex Discovery Plot–the usual plot employed for horror films, as outlined by cinema scholar Noël Carroll. And, the runtime is thankfully short for a feature. John Carradine starred as Dracula in Universal's "The House of Frankenstein" (1944) and "The House of Dracula" (1945), so, of course, he's perfectly credible in the role once again this time, and he, at least, seems to have tried to camp it up some. Chuck Courtney also looks the part of Billy the Kid, and the rest of the cast is serviceable, as well. Even the vampire's mesmerizing stare, the fake bats and the stop-substitution appearances for Dracula have been done amusingly worse in films before and after this one. The stereotypical Native Americans, the scenes filmed during the day that are supposed to be set at night, and the bland dialogue are too routine.<br/><br/>I did find the scene of Dracula hitching a ride in a horse carriage a bit amusing, as it reminded me of Jonathan Harker's ride to Castle Dracula in Stoker's novel, where fellow passengers warned Harker about the vampire. Instead, the passengers in this film are rightly a bit spooked that they're sharing a carriage with the undead. In addition to the wolf's bane, the film borrows some other parts from other movies. Dracula as an identity thief had been used in "Son of Dracula" (1943) and "The Return of Dracula" (1958). And Dracula being fascinated by an image of a woman is a common trope in Dracula movies which originates from the 1922 "Nosferatu."<br/><br/>(Mirror Note: The doctor confirms Dracula's vampirism by revealing his lack of a reflection in a mirror. The through-the-mirror shot shows Betty, whom Dracula is carrying, to seemingly be floating in mid-air.) New York City-born director William Beaudine didn't acquire the nickname "One Shot" for nothing. Working at a furious and efficient pace, Beaudine managed to helm no fewer than 178 films, starting in the 1920s and extending all the way to 1966. In his final year as a filmmaker, Beaudine brought all his vast experience to bear and managed to come up with two entertainments that have been flabbergasting audiences for over half a century now. The two films–"Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter" and "Billy the Kid Versus Dracula"–served as a perfectly well-matched double feature, both in name as well as subject matter. I had previously been surprised at how decent a film the first had been, exceeding my minimal expectations in terms of both filmmaking skill and entertainment value. And now that I have finally caught up with the latter, I am surprised to find that it is NOT the campy lowbrow experience that I had been led to believe was the case. A fairly unique hybrid of both horror and Western–a combined genre that the Mexican cinema of the late '50s and early '60s seemed a lot more willing to explore than the American movies of that same era–the film, though hardly anyone's idea of a quality picture, yet remains a moderately fun outing that should just manage to please fans of both categories. No, it is not "High Noon" and it is surely not a film guaranteed to shock and frighten the viewer, but still, it DOES manage to amuse.<br/><br/>In the film (which Beaudine shot in just five days!), John Carradine plays everyone's favorite neck nosher (he had first played the Count in the classic Universal films "House of Frankenstein" and "House of Dracula" more than 20 years earlier), here traveling through the Wild West of the 19th century. As one of four passengers in a stagecoach (apparently, after he has become too tired to turn into a bat and just take wing to wherever he's going), he meets the mother and uncle of a young blonde woman whose picture he is allowed to see in a locket, and realizes at once that this young woman is destined to be his eternal, undead bride. The stagecoach passengers are later massacred by an Indian raiding party (the Native Americans being goaded into violence after Dracula attacks one of their own), and the vampire soon arrives at the Bar-B Ranch, where pretty Barbie doll Betty Bentley (Melinda Plowman, an actress more known for her extensive TV work, here in one of her few feature films) lives. He pretends to be the uncle, one James Underhill, whom she has never met, while preparing for her a wedding suite in the abandoned silver mine nearby. But Dracula also makes the mistake of slaying the daughter of an immigrant German couple in the area, the Frau of which (Virginia Christine as Eva Oster) is immediately suspicious of him. And after the reformed gunslinger Billy the Kid (former stuntman Chuck Courtney), now just plain ol' Billy Bonney, who is working as foreman on the Bar-B ranch and is soon to be engaged to Betty (turning her into Betty Bentley Bonney?!?!), is also made suspicious, both by the strange uncle's actions and by the good Frau, a showdown in that creepy underground cavern looms….<br/><br/>Today, "Billy the Kid Versus Dracula" labors under a fairly miserable and, it seems to me, undeserved reputation. The "Maltin Movie Guide" calls it "campy nonsense," and even my beloved "Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film," which usually has a high tolerance for such fare, deems it a "hopeless horror Western." Personally, I think the editors at both these esteemed volumes are being a bit too harsh. Sure, the film is patently outlandish, and its special effects are practically nonexistent (we never do see Dracula transform into a bat or vice versa, and his physical decomposition in the film's final scene is brought about in the crudest of expedients), but putting those matters aside, it IS otherwise well put together, displays some assured talent both behind and in front of the camera, and–bottom line–is a lot of fun to watch. I didn't laugh AT the film once; it is hardly a camp fest, despite the inherent and admitted loopiness of the plot. The film, to the viewer's surprise, boasts some unique touches, for both a Western and a horror film. For one thing, our hero Billy gets the living crap beaten out of him by his (human) adversary in one scene; he is hardly the ablest fighter with his mitts. Too, he displays self-doubts as to how to proceed in his battle with the Count. To be sure, the film's title is something of a misnomer, suggesting as it does an almost equal contest; as it turns out, both Frau Oster, with her greater vampire knowledge, as well as the town doctor, would have been more worthy adversaries. And most interestingly, that town doctor in the film, who renders invaluable aid to Billy in terms of both book learning and practical weapons, is a woman…and an elderly woman, to boot (played by silent film star Olive Carey)! As for Carradine himself, though a bit long in the tooth (I would ordinarily say "long in the fang" here, except for the fact that we never do see his canines on display), he does manage to be occasionally intimidating, going so far as to SNARL like a rabid dog when he attacks his victims! The picture also features some nice outdoor scenery, shot in pleasing color, and that Indian attack scene is actually very well done. And as for Billy and Betty, their relationship seems so very wholesome that the viewer almost expects Betty to call Billy "Archie" at some points. Still, as I say, the film IS fun to watch, and its 74-minute running time just flies by. Bottom line: William "One Shot" Beaudine may have taken a while to refine his craft, but at least he went out with a pair of entertaining pleasers.
When German immigrants Franz (<a href="/name/nm0417907/">Walter Janovitz</a>) and Eva (<a href="/name/nm0160417/">Virginia Christine</a>) Oster's daughter Lisa (<a href="/name/nm0484869/">Hannie Landman</a>) is killed by Dracula (<a href="/name/nm0001017/">John Carradine</a>), the Osters swear to fight this vampire, but no one will believe them. Dracula shows up again in the guise of Uncle James Underhill, newly arrived in town to help out at the Double Bar B Ranch. Dracula has assumed this identity because he is smitten with Elizabeth "Betty" Bentley (<a href="/name/nm0143490/">Melinda Casey</a>), niece of the real James Underhill. Fortunately, Betty's boyfriend is retired gunslinger, now Double Bar B ranch hand, William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid (<a href="/name/nm0183900/">Chuck Courtney</a>). Billy gets suspicious of the gruff and heartless Underhill and invites the Osters to move onto the ranch to help Betty with the housekeeping chores. However, "Uncle James" fires Billy and drives the Osters out to the bunkhouse while planning to make Betty his vampire bride. The movie was filmed from a screenplay written by American screenwriter Carl. K. Hittleman. The character of Dracula (who impersonates Uncle James Underhill in the movie) is taken from the 1897 novel Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker. The character of Billy the Kid was taken from a real19th-century American outlaw who, according to legend, killed 21 men during his days as an outlaw, one for each year of his life, though he likely killed far fewer than that number. After seeing that Uncle James casts no reflection in a mirror, convincing proof that he is a vampire, Doc Hull (<a href="/name/nm0137010/">Olive Carey</a>) helps Billy break out of jail. Billy hurries back to the ranch but finds that both Underhill and Betty are missing. Concluding that Underhill must have taken Betty to the abandoned silver mine, Billy heads there. Meanwhile, Underhill/Dracula is putting Betty to sleep while preparing to bite her and make her his vampire bride. Billy arrives in time to fire seven bullets (from his six-shooter), but Dracula is not fazed and simply knocks Billy out cold. The Doc and Sheriff Griffin (<a href="/name/nm0054117/">Roy Barcroft</a>) arrive just as Underhill zooms in on Betty for a final neck bite, and the sheriff shoots Dracula several more times but to no avail. Billy, now conscious again, grabs the sheriff's gun and tosses it at Dracula, hitting him in the head and knocking him out cold. He then takes the Doc's scalpel and hammers it into Dracula's heart. As Dracula begins to deteriorate, Betty wakes up, none the worse for the wear. In the final scene, Billy carries Betty out of the cave, stopping on the way for a long kiss, while Doc and the sheriff follow. When Billy impales Dracula at the end of the movie, a bat is seen exiting the cave. It settles on the desert floor and is not referred to again, giving no explanation as to the significance of the scene. Viewers have suggested several possibilities: (1) it is Dracula's spirit leaving him, (2) it is an actual bat from the cave, (3) it suggests that Dracula's spirit survives in the bat, and (4) it was an attempt to set things up for a sequel that never materialized. Surprisingly, it's more faithful to Bram Stoker's depiction of Dracula than most subsequent interpretations. In this movie, Uncle James/Dracula has a mustache, he speaks fluent English without an accent, he's not harmed by sunlight (although his powers may be diminished in the daytime), and he becomes enamored with another man's fiancée after first seeing her in a photograph. d6a2afd33b The Rose and the Pistol downloadMovie Guide: Part 9 tamil pdf downloadLove Game download torrentthe Avasara Police 100 full movie download in hindiMonster in hindi movie downloadChinese Odyssey 2002 full movie in hindi free downloadThe Spirit of '76 movie free download in hindithe Uch senkan Yamato 2199 full movie in hindi free download hdKiller Tomatoes Strike Back! malayalam full movie free downloadGod Is on Their Side tamil dubbed movie torrentWildlife in Combat movie hindi free downloadRed Snow full movie in hindi free download hd 720pD ku bur m n movie free download in hindiThe Yanam Parable full movie 720p downloadBlack movie free download in hindithe Departure! Eggfort 2 full movie download in hindiTrancers 4: Jack of Swords torrentRodinn tajomstv 720p moviesControl animal dubbed hindi movie free download torrentThe Last Princess full movie kickass torrent
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