Rating: NR
Genre: Horror
Release Date: 08/13/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Japanese
Dubbed: English
Run Time: 69 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar

He looks like Dracula, talks like Dracula and dresses like Dracula; but since the movie rights to Dracula were controlled by Universal, Bela Lugosi's character name is Armand Tesla in Columbia's Return of the Vampire. Bringing the Old Legend up to date, the film contrives to have the blood-sucking Tesla rise from his coffin when his tomb is blasted open during the London Blitz. Making up for lost time (he's been interred since WW1), Tesla enlists the aid of talking werewolf Andreas (Matt Willis), who brings him provisions and seeks out new victims. The next soft white neck on Tesla's list belongs to the lovely Nicki Saunders (Nina Foch), but not if Lady Jane Ainsley (Frieda Inescort), who knows what the mysterious stranger is really up to, has anything to say about it. Incidentally, the girl playing Tesla's victim in the opening credits is an unbilled Jeanne Bates.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Bela Lugosi - Armand Tesla
Frieda Inescort - Lady Jane Ainsley
Nina Foch - Nicki Saunders
Roland Varno - John Ainsley
Miles Mander - Sir Frederick Fleet
Matt Willis - Andreas Obry
Ottola Nesmith - Elsa
Gilbert Emery - Professor Saunders
Leslie Denison - Lynch
William Austin -

Production:
Lew Landers - Director
Sam White - Producer
Paul Borofsky - Editor
Randall H. Faye Griffin Jay - Screen Writer
Louis Diage - Set Designer
Lionel Banks - Art Director
John Stumar - Cinematographer
Lewis William O'Connell - Cinematographer
Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision
Clay Campbell - Makeup

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