transfusion to slow her descent into vampirism, but she remains under Dracula's spell. Now aided by Jonathan, the doctors realize that the only way to save Lucy is by destroying Dracula. They manage to locate his coffin within the grounds of Carfax Abbey, but the vampire is waiting for them. Despite it being daylight, Dracula is still a very powerful adversary. Dracula escapes their attempts to kill him, bursts into the asylum to free the captive Lucy and also scolds his slave, Milo Renfield, for warning the others about him. Renfield apologizes and pleads for his life, but Dracula kills him by breaking his neck. Dracula makes preparations to return to Transylvania with Lucy. Harker and Van Helsing board the ship carrying Dracula and Lucy as cargo bound for Romania. Below decks, Harker and Van Helsing find Dracula and Lucy sleeping in a coffin. Van Helsing attempts to stake Dracula, but Lucy protests, waking Dracula. In the struggle, Van Helsing is fatally wounded by Dracula as he is impaled with the stake intended for the vampire. Dracula now concentrates his attention on Harker. Van Helsing uses his remaining strength to throw a hook attached to a rope, tied to the ship's rigging, into Dracula's back. Harker seizes his chance and hoists the count up through the cargo hold to the top of the ship's rigging, where he dies a painful death when the rays of the sun burn his body. Van Helsing dies from his wounds. Lucy is now apparently herself again, and Harker comforts her. Lucy smiles enigmatically as she notices Dracula's cape blow away into the horizon, hinting that Dracula may have survived. Cast Frank Langella as Count Dracula Laurence Olivier as Professor Abraham Van Helsing Donald Pleasence as Dr. Jack Seward Kate Nelligan as Lucy Seward Jan Francis as Mina Van Helsing Trevor Eve as Jonathan Harker Tony Haygarth as Milo Renfield Sylvester McCoy as Walter Myrtle Janine Duvitski as Annie Teddy Turner as Swales Production Like Universal's earlier 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi, the screenplay for this adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is based on the stage adaptation by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which ran on Broadway and also starred Langella in a Tony Award-nominated performance. Set in the Edwardian period, and strikingly designed by Edward Gorey, the play ran for over 900 performances between October 1977 and January 1980. Langella also appeared