Billy The Kid vs Dracula

[break-dancing robot]

I am totally dumbfounded to see that you dont have this piece of shlock for a movie on your list. Anything with John Carradine as Dracula is worthy of a viewing.

[Squishy]

Yeah, it's a masterpiece. Any movie in which Dracula, the all-powerful, shape-shifting Prince of Darkness, is portrayed as a bug-eyed arthritic old git easily taken down screaming with a thrown hammer is a masterpiece. (Hammer Films never got that bad, and they used everything short of a garlic-laced pie in the face.)

Actually, "companion piece" Jeese James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter is "better" schlock, with stereotypical Me-hi-cans, a rat-faced thief-murderer scumbag for our hero, dirty-dungeon brain-surgery, even worse stock-footage use than Billy, and a guy who remembers his buddy--while wearing someone else's brains. (Why do Hollywooders think memory resides in the heart, limbs, or the colon, when everyone knows it's located in the navel?)

[Flangepart]

Ah, the garlic-laced pie in the face, from \"The Three Stooges meet Dracula\"s first cousin.\"  BTW.....memory resides in the navel? Dang, and here i always thought it was the one-eyed trowser snake. Well, thats what my girl friends always told me......

[Squishy]

No, no, Mr. Winkle holds all the higher thought processes.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Anybody see John Carradine as Dracula in the "House of Frankenstein" or "House of Dracula." He does a great job of playing Dracula in both. (IMHO) Probably one of the most underrated Draculas of all-time. Enjoy!

[Ken Begg]

Actually, it's funnier than that.  Billy empties his revolver into the Count to little effect, but then he tosses the gun at him and knocks him out.

(Although you could theorize that the wooden handles of the revolver are what did the deed.  For instance, in line with the wooden stakes things, novelist Fred Saberhagen's vampire characters remain vulnerable to wooden weapons.)

[Squishy]

Ah, you're right. It's been a while. If I recall correctly--and that's iffy--he hits Carradine in the face with it, for God's sake--in the movie's only "genuine" moment, I wondered if Carradine's wail of pain was the real thing.

My favorite Carradine role; the Great Owl in The Secret of NIMH.

[KingVidor]

I like the part when he looks in the mirror and goes "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuaghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!"  I saw one, it was one of those Something Weird ones.  His voice was dubbed in spanish and then re-dubbed in English for american TV.   It was a Santo-type thing.  He was Dracula.