Dracula (1958)
Hammer's 1958 Dracula made the vampire physical, sexual, and bloody. Christopher Lee plays Dracula, and the performance redefined the role.
Tag: 1950s
Films released between 1950 and 1959, when television arrived and the studios answered with everything the small screen could not do: widescreen, colour, spectacle and scale. The decade also produced the atomic-anxiety science fiction, the last great westerns of the classical mode, and the beginning of the teenager as a subject. The reviews here look at what the competition with television actually changed on screen.
