Story-wise, this is similar to the 1990's version with Gary Oldman in the title role.
Production-wise, this is more or less what you'd expect from 1970's BBC.
But there is no actual way that performance-wise, any of these actors could be considered the quintisential anybody, and that very much includes Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula himself. The entire production featured characters who were on roughly the same emotional level throughout the whole thing; for Jourdan, that level was rather dull. He was not creepy, charming, imposing, or anything else that Dracula should be.
Very disappointing.
Production-wise, this is more or less what you'd expect from 1970's BBC.
But there is no actual way that performance-wise, any of these actors could be considered the quintisential anybody, and that very much includes Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula himself. The entire production featured characters who were on roughly the same emotional level throughout the whole thing; for Jourdan, that level was rather dull. He was not creepy, charming, imposing, or anything else that Dracula should be.
Very disappointing.