What Renfield Really Wants in "DRACULA" (1931, English/Spanish)

In both the English language version of "Dracula" (1931) and its Spanish counterpart...
...Renfield's insane laughter causes a hapless sanitarium nurse to faint dead away.
As the deranged fly eater slowly advances on her prone body...
...we fear his intentions.
The English version leaves the rest to our imaginations.
But in the Spanish version...
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[@larrytalbot3824]

Ever since I first saw this movie as a kid, the scene with the nurse always creeped me out - not knowing _just_ what happened right after he reaches out to her, then it cuts away suddenly, especially as we see her again after this, apparently none the worse for wear...then, when I eventually got the special edition version on DVD that included the Spanish version & it was revealed both in _that_ version & in the script for the English language version, that Renfield was focused on catching a fly that had landed on her face. In a lot of _technical_ ways, the Spanish version is MUCH better than the English language one, but it's the *cast* in the Tod Browning one that elevates it - Dwight Frye shines! & no harm to the Spanish actor who plays Dracula but, he had none of the charisma of Lugosi.

[@JEFFIE-jp6kj]

Dwight Frye should have been used more by Universal & others, his fame really rests only on 4 movies DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, BRIDE, VAMPIRE BAT & to a lesser extent Dead Men Walk

[@blackcougar1959]

AGREED 100% JEFFIE 2001

[@dewchamp5716]

I love how Dwight's Renfield really looks like an animal as he approaches the nurse. It's a perfect performance.

[@jacksbox317]

I'm a bigger fan of the slow, chilling laugh. The louder one I'm sure got a good rise out of audiences back the though.

[@isaacthedragon2271]

Is it not obvious? He wants food! He is but a hungry snake, waiting for his next mouse...

[@MikiGo88]

You forgot the part where Dracula tells him about how old the wine is and Renfield has his doubts about the wine at 1st in the English one while in the Spanish one he just drinks it without a 2nd thought and Dracula doesn't mention the wine is really old. I just finished watching both versions and I noticed so many differences

[@flashfish123]

The language may be Spanish but this is largely a Mexican production...shot simultaneously (American crew shot during the day, the Mexican crew shot at night on the same sets)

[@kaileycarothers3479]

Dracula

[@kimcarothers2203]

the english is better than the spanish one

[@kimcarothers2203]

@M D yes

[@kaileycarothers3479]

Maybe

[@paulopaulada3920]

no way

[@kimcarothers2203]

@@paulopaulada3920 yes way

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

lol got to give you a downvote for that ending