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Harker's decayed corpse?


Has anybody seen photo's of Harker like this? I haven't and I have quite a few horror books and magazines. The British cut is approx 77/78 minutes,but the film is listed at 82 mins,has something been cut or is it the sped up pal print that Americans like to go on about..?

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I have, a long time ago in a book about vampires. I think it was called "Vampires" and was written by Nancy Garden. As I recall, in the photo Harker was very shriveled and mummified looking. Since it didn't appear anywhere in the film, it must be part of lost footage (after he was staked by Van Helsing?) that apparently nobody has now.

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I've seen it and remember reading that the corpselike Harker wasn't use in the final cut. But looking at that icture of a dried-up Harker I thought 'was Harker tortured? Did Dracula suck his blood so hard or so frequently that he dried up to the brink of physical destruction?'


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The shot never made it into the final cut. http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2012/11/restored-horror-of-dracula-to -hit-uk-next-march/

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that's a picture of Dracula in the finale, not Harker.


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Please, scroll down a bit and you will see the Jonathan Harker picture.

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