1931 D R A C U L A (Spanish Version) cast Conde Dracula.................Carlos Villarias Eva Seward.....................Lupita Tovar Juan Harker.....................Barry Norton Renfield..............Pablo Alvarez Rubio Van Helsing................Eduardo Arozamena Dr. Seward..............Jose Soriano Viosca Lucia..................Carmen Guerrero T R A N S Y L V A N I A EARLY AFTERNOON In a Coach in the Carpathian Mountains A young woman (Sara) reads from a travel brochure to four passengers SARA: "Near Bistriz, the road turns toward the heart of the Carpathians, one of the most barren and least known places in Europe." Sara is knocked from her seat by the jostling coach MAN: Allow me. SARA: Thank you very much. LADY: What was that, Sara? SARA: "...one of the most barren and least known places in Europe." LADY: Keep reading. SARA: Crumbling castles are scatted among the rugged summits. They belong to a remote era..." Sara is again knocked from her seat by the jostling coach RENFIELD: Coachman, you should go a little slower. MAN: No, no! We must get to the inn before nightfall! SARA: Why? MAN: Today is Walpurghis Night, the night of bad omen! Nosferatu! MAN'S WIFE: (places her hand over his mouth) MAN: The dead come out from their tombs and suck the blood of the living. LADY: Nonsense! MAN: You would not laugh at it, if you lived here. Tonight all the doors will be locked, and we shall pray to the Virgin. LATER THAT AFTERNOON A Village Inn Villagers anxiously greet the coach VILLAGER: What was the journey like? PASSENGER: Very good, thank you. VILLAGER: Well, I am glad to hear it. RENFIELD: Lad, get my luggage. I must continue to the Borgo Pass. PORTER: (speaks in Hungarian to the Innkeeper) INNKEEPER: I must warn you that today is the day of St. Walpurga, which is considered as bad omen in this area. And the coachman, who is a good fellow, wishes to know whether you do not mind continuing the journey after sunrise. RENFIELD: I'm very sorry, but at midnight a carriage will be waiting for me at the Borgo Pass. INNKEEPER: Whose carriage? RENFIELD: Conde Dracula's. INNKEEPER: Dracula's castle? RENFIELD: Si, that is my destination. INNKEEPER'S WIFE: Look, he wants to go tonight to the Borgo Pass. INNKEEPER: I beg you to stay the night here. RENFIELD: But all of this is mere superstition. I mean, in a mountainous area like this one...I do not understand how...After all, what I try to say is that I'm not afraid. I have already told him that it is business matter. I must go there, really. INNKEEPER'S WIFE: Wait! Since you want to leave, put this on. Put it on for your mother's sake. Innkeeper's wife places crucifix around Renfield's neck INKEEPER'S WIFE: It will protect you. RENFIELD: Gracias. INKEEPER'S WIFE: You are very welcome. RENFIELD: Buenas noches. INNKEEPER'S WIFE: Buenas noches. And I wish you a good journey. VILLAGERS: Buenas noches. Buenas noches and good luck. Exit coach carrying Renfield SARA: Tell me, do you really believe there are vampires who come out of their tombs and roam about looking for blood? INNKEEPER: I have seen the victims. LADY: Nonsense! Come, Sara. SUNDOWN The Crypt at Castle Dracula Dracula and three vampiresses awaken from their coffins MIDNIGHT Borgo Pass A carriage waits at the Borgo Pass Renfield's coach arrives Renfield dismounts and the coach speeds away Renfield approaches awaiting carriage RENFIELD: Conde Dracula's carriage? DRIVER: (nods and takes Renfield's luggage) RENFIELD: (enters carriage) The carriage speeds away RENFIELD: (peers out the carriage window) A bat leads the driverless carriage LATER THAT NIGHT The entrance to Castle Dracula The driverless carriage arrives at Castle Renfield disembarks cautiously A door opens into the Castle Renfield enters The door closes Inside Castle Dracula Enter Renfield A bat flies over his head and up a flight of stairs A man appears halfway up the stairs DRACULA: I am...Dracula. RENFIELD: You have come at the right time. I have no idea what happened to the coachman and to my luggage. With all those things, I thought I was at the wrong house. DRACULA: The walls of my castle are cracked. The shadows are many. But come in. Feel yourself at home. Dracula heads upstairs Renfield follows Offstage: Wolf call DRACULA: Listen to them...they are the children of the night. What beautiful music they make! Dracula passes through a spiderweb Renfield breaks a hole in spiderweb to pass through A spider scurries up the web DRACULA: The eternal fight for survival. Every living creature needs blood to keep on living. The spider weaves his web to catch the unwary fly. The blood...is the life, Senor Renfield. Renfield's Bedchamber Enter Dracula and Renfield DRACULA: I guess that you will find this part of the castle more attractive. RENFIELD: It sure is! DRACULA: I thought you might be hungry. RENFIELD: You are very kind, Conde Dracula. DRACULA: Sit down. RENFIELD: Gracias. DRACULA: (pours a glass of wine) RENFIELD: (drinks the wine) DRACULA: I trust nobody knows about this visit? RENFIELD: Definitely nobody, as you recommended. DRACULA: I assume you have burnt all our correspondence. RENFIELD: I have followed all your instructions to the letter. DRACULA: Excellent, Senor Renfield, excellent. Renfield cuts his finger on a breadknife and squeezes out a drop of blood DRACULA: (stealthily approaches Renfield) Renfield's crucifix falls over the cut finger DRACULA: (backs off quickly) RENFIELD: It was nothing serious. Just a scratch. DRACULA: (pours another glass of wine) Renfield downs the entire glass RENFIELD: Won't you have some? DRACULA: I never drink...wine. And now, if you are all right, I would like to talk about the lease of Carfax Abbey. RENFIELD: But all the documents are in my briefcase. DRACULA: I took the liberty of sending for your luggage. RENFIELD: Everything is in order. You just needs to sign it. I hope there are enough tags for all your bags. DRACULA: I am only taking three boxes. We shall leave tomorrow night. RENFIELD: Everything will be ready. DRACULA: (pointing to bed) I wish you find it comfortable. RENFIELD: Thanks. It looks appealing. DRACULA: Now I shall leave you alone. I might dally away tomorrow, during the day. In that case, we shall meet here at dusk. Buenas noches, Senor Renfield. RENFIELD: Well, buenas noches. Exit Dracula RENFIELD: (loosens his collar and stumbles to the window for fresh air) Renfield faints Enter three vampiresses SEVERAL WEEKS LATER Aboard the Vesta bound for England On deck the crew battles a raging storm In the hold Dracula rises from his coffin ****************************** THE NEXT MORNING E N G L A N D Whitby Harbor Officials examine the ghostship Vesta MAN 1: Look! Fingers stiffened on the wheel as if they were frozen. He must have died of fright. MAN 2: What a terrible tragedy! MAN 1: Not even a shred of the sails is left. MAN 2: It must have been a terrible storm. MAN 3: What about the sailors? Where are they? In the hold Renfield whispers to Dracula's coffin RENFIELD: Master! Master, we have arrived. Can you hear me, Master? On deck MAN 1: What is that? MAN 2: Let us open that hatchway! Hatchway opens to reveal Renfield RENFIELD: (laughs like a maniac) From the Whitby Newspaper CREW OF CORPSES IN ABANDONED SHIP A terrible storm may have caused it. A madman is the only survivor. Maritime authorities will deliver the shipment to the consignees. THAT NIGHT Dracula rises from his coffin at Carfax Abbey SEVERAL EVENINGS LATER A Theatre in London An usherette leads Dracula inside DRACULA: You will tell Dr. Seward, who is sitting in the next box, that there is a phone call for him. Once you have given him this message, you will not remember anything. The Sewards' box Seward, Harker, Eva and Lucia listen to the symphony Enter Usherette USHERETTE: Dr. Seward, there is a phone call for you. SEWARD: Excuse me. Seward steps from the box DRACULA: Will you excuse me? SEWARD: Si? DRACULA: By chance I heard your name. Are you the Dr. Seward who has a sanitarium at Whitby? SEWARD: That's right. DRACULA: I'm Conde Dracula. I have just rented Carfax Abbey. I understand it is next to the gardens of your sanatarium. SEWARD: Correct. It lies next to my property. It is a great pleasure to meet you, Conde. Would you like to join us? Conde, allow me to introduce my my daughter Eva... Dracula kisses Eva's hand SEWARD: ...Senorita Weston... Dracula kisses Lucia's hand SEWARD: ...Senor Harker. Conde Dracula has just rented Carfax Abbey. LUCIA: It will be a joy to see those dark windows illuminated again! SEWARD: Conde, I beg you to excuse me. There is a phone call for me. In the meantime, please be seated. DRACULA: Mucho gusto. Exit Seward HARKER: A pretty house could be built out of those Carfax ruins. Of course, a lot of money is needed. DRACULA: I shall barely touch them. They remind me of the crumbling walls of my own castle in Transylvania. LUCIA: What they remind me of is that old toast: "Majestic lives upon deserted walls beat with the echo of our laughter as if the dead whispered through them." HARKER: How sweet! LUCIA: Wait. There is something even sweeter. "For those who are already dead, let us empty our glasses. And let us cheer for the one who must die first." EVA: You can create the rest, Lucia. DRACULA: To really die...to be really dead...must be sublime. EVA: But Conde! DRACULA: Something worse than death lies in wait for the living. Music begins LATER THAT NIGHT Lucia's Room Lucia prepares for bed LUCIA: You can laugh as much as you like. I find him fascinating. EVA: Lucia, the romantic girl. That explains it. That part about the crumbling walls. I still prefer a more formal man. LUCIA: Like Juan? EVA: Si, my dear friend, si. Like Juan. Well, Countess, I am very tired. I leave you with your Conde and his crumbling abbey. May you have sweet dreams. Buenas noches. LUCIA: Buenas noches. Exit Eva LUCIA: (opens the windows) In the street below Lucia's window DRACULA: (strolls past a policeman) POLICEMAN: The fog is getting thicker. DRACULA: Si. Dracula peers up at Lucia's open window Lucia lies down on her bed Enter bat DRACULA: (materializes and approaches Lucia) THE NEXT DAY An autopsy theatre DOCTOR: Another death! When was the last transfusion performed on Senorita Weston? SEWARD: About four hours before her death. DOCTOR: The same symptoms in each one of the cases. A baffling loss of blood that we hae been unable to avoid. Give me the magnifying glass. And these two identical marks were found on the neck of each of the victims. ********************************** S W I T Z E R L A N D SEVERAL DAYS LATER Dr. Van Helsing's Laboratory Drs. Van Helsing, Seward and colleagues analyze a blood sample HELSING: Gentlemen, we must deal with vampires. DOCTORS: Vampires? Nosferatu? SEWARD: Si, the vampire of Transylvania. HELSING: That is right. Nosferatu, the vampire. The vampire attacks his victims in the neck and leaves two tiny white wounds with a red dot in the centre. DOCTOR: But Professor Van Helsing, that theory is inconceivable. In these times, medical science does not accept the existence of such a creature. That is just a myth. A superstition. HELSING: Dr. Seward's patient Renfield, whose blood I have just analyzed, has the obsession that he must eat other living creaturs in order to feed his own life. I am going to England with Dr. Seward to study Renfield's case. And perhaps I can prove to you that the superstition of times gone by may become a scientific truth in our time. Look. The doctors peer into a microscope *************************** E N G L A N D A FEW EVENINGS LATER The Grounds of the Seward Sanitarium near Whitby Renfield screams In Renfield's Room Renfield grabs deparately at a spider Martin pulls Renfield away from the web RENFIELD: No, don't take it away. Martin, don't take it away! You are a good man. Don't! MARTIN: Aren't you ashamed of yourself? Now you are interested in spiders. Spiders! You are no longer content with flies. RENFIELD: Flies? Wretched flies? Tiny flies. Who can be content with flies? MARTIN: You, a raving lunatic! RENFIELD: When beautiful and plump spiders are not available, maybe. MARTIN: All right, do as you please. But now come with me. The Professor wants to talk with you again. Let us go! In Seward's office Van Helsing and Seward confer SEWARD: It's a very strange case. The only thing Renfield has craved for, so far, are small bugs. No human beings. HELSING: That is what we think, Doctor. But you say that he slips away from his room. That he spends hours on the outside. Where does he go? There is a knock on the door SEWARD: Come in! Enter Renfield and Martin HELSING: Well, Senor Renfield, you look much better now than in the morning when I got here. RENFIELD: Thanks, Professor. I feel much better. SEWARD: Martin. Seward motions Martin to give Renfield a chair HELSING: I was told that you studied at Oxford University. RENFIELD: That is true. I graduated from the School of Law. In 1927. I was accepted in the Bar in 1928. Afterwards......Excuse me... Renfield stalks a fly, catches it, but lets it go RENFIELD: An inferior organism. Unworthy of my attention. Renfield sits back down HELSING: What would you have done with that fly, had we not been here? MARTIN: Eat it up. HELSING: Tell me, Senor Renfield. What makes you eat flies? RENFIELD: The wings of flies, gentlemen, represent the aerial power of the psychic faculties. MARTIN: There is more to this fellow than meets the eye, Doctor. MEANWHILE On the Terrace at the Seward House Eva and Harker talk HARKER: I've never seen you like this before, Eva. What is wrong with you? Are you worried about something? Have I done something to you? EVA: You have not done anything to me, Juan. Do not worry. HARKER: But there is something wrong. Tell me. EVA: I do not know what it might be. I have been feeling frightened lately. When the night begins to fall, I get this feeling that something tightens around me. Oh, Juan. SUNDOWM The crypt at Carfax Abbey Dracula rises from his coffin. At the Seward House Eva and Harker come inside from the terrace Seward's Office Van Helsing attempts to draw a blood sample from Renfield RENFIELD: Do not touch me with that disgusting device! SEWARD: Come on, Renfield. RENFIELD: You must let me out of here. HELSING: Why is it so important to you? RENFIELD: Because I scream at night. I could bother Senorita Eva and even cause her to have nightmares. HELSING: Nightmares? RENFIELD: Si, Doctor, si. Nightmares. Offstage: Wolf call HELSING: It sounds as a wolf howling. SEWARD: Si, it sure does. But I cannot believe that wolves come so close to men. MARTIN: This one thinks that they do. And I have heard howling at night. He says that they talk to him, and he screams back at the top of his voice. He is crazy! HELSING: I should have thought about it. You know well why the wolves talk. Isn't that true, Senor Renfield? And you also know how to shut them up. Van Helsing holds up a sprig of aconite (wolfbane) RENFIELD: (screams and turns away) You know too much to keep on living. HELSING: We cannot get another word out of him at the moment. SEWARD: You can take him, Martin. MARTIN: Get up, blockhead. RENFIELD: I warn you again, Dr. Seward. If you do not let me go, you will be responsible for whatever happens to your daughter. Exit Martin and Renfield SEWARD: What kind of herb got him so excited? HELSING: It is aconite. The peasants in central Europe use it to drive vampires away. SEWARD: And Renfield reacted as soon as he smelt it. HELSING: Si. He must be watched closely day and night, mainly by night. SEWARD: Si. LATER THAT EVENING The Seward Parlour Eva and Harker sit on couch HARKER: You were saying that you went to sleep. EVA: Si. I was reading and fell asleep. I began to dream. A dog barked, and it looked as if the whole room was wrapped in mist. It was so thick that I could hardly see the light by my bedside. It looked like a tiny spark lost amidst the fog. Enter Van Helsing and Seward EVA: I saw two red eyes staring at me and a livid white face through the fog. He came closer and closer. I could feel his breath on my face...and his lips...Ah! HARKER: Eva, it was just a dream. EVA: The next morning, I felt very weak, as if I had lost my virginity. HELSING: When did you have that dream, Senorita Eva? EVA: The night when father left for Switzerland. That is to say, the night after Lucia was buried. HELSING: Wait. Think for a moment. Can you remember what might have caused that nightmare? EVA: Nothing.. HARKER: There is something in Eva's mind, something she does not want to tell us. HELSING: And that face that you saw in your dream...are you saying that it was getting closer and closer? That those lips touched you? EVA: (nods) HELSING: Where? EVA: (Recoils from Van Helsing's touch) SEWARD: Eva. EVA: No, no, papa. Por favor. SEWARD: What do you have on your neck? EVA: Por Dios, papa! Seward and Van Helsing examine Eva's neck HELSING: Since when have you had those marks? HARKER: Marks? EVA: Since the day after that dream. Enter Maid MAID: Conde Dracula is here. Enter Dracula DRACULA: It is a pleasure to see you again, Doctor. I already knew that you were back. Senorita Seward. Dracula kisses Eva's hand SEWARD: Excuse me, Conde Dracula. This is Professor Van Helsing. DRACULA: Van Helsing, the distinguished man of science whose fame has even reached the mountains of Transylvania. HELSING: Doctor, I beg you to excuse me, but your daughter had better go to her room immediately. DRACULA: Aren't you feeling well? I hope it is nothing serious. EVA: I had a terrible dream a few nights ago, and I have not been able to push it away from my mind. DRACULA: Maybe you have taken my stories too seriously? HARKER: Stories? DRACULA: I have humbly tried to cheer up your fiancee by telling her legends, though somewhat gloomy, about my distant motherland. SEWARD: Daughter, I am sure Conde Dracula will excuse you. It is imperative that you go to your room as Professor Van Helsing has advised you to do. EVA: But, father, I want you to know that I'm feeling quite well now. DRACULA: You had better do as your father says. EVA: Muy bien. SEWARD: Buenas noches, my dear daughter. DRACULA: I must go, Doctor. HELSING: I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again. EVA: Buenas noches, Juan. DRACULA: Senor Harker. Van Helsing notices that Dracula casts no reflection in the mirror of an open cigarette case DRACULA: I shall come by later to ask how you are feeling. EVA: Gracias. DRACULA: Buenas noches, Senorita Seward. EVA: Buenas noches. Exit Eva DRACULA: I am very sorry that my visit was so untimely. SEWARD: Not at all. HELSING: On the contrary, it could be of great importance. Moreover, before you leave, you can be helpful to us. DRACULA: It will be a pleasure to do whatever I can. HELSING: Just a moment ago, I discovered an amazing phenomenon...something so incredible that I do not trust my own eyes. And I want you to help me prove it. Van Helsing holds mirror to Dracula DRACULA: (angrily smashes mirror with his cane) Dr. Seward, please accept my apologies. I could not avoid it. Dracula turns to Van Helsing DRACULA: Considering that you have not lived an entire life yet, you know a lot, Professor. Exit Dracula HARKER: Did you see the expression on his face? He looked like an enraged beast! HELSING: Dracula is our vampire. SEWARD: Vampire? For God's sake, Professor. HELSING: Vampires are not reflected in mirrors. That is why Dracula shattered that mirror. HARKER: Look Professor, that makes no sense whatsoever. HELSING: Dracula is the monster who killed Lucia Weston. The same one who left those marks on Senorita Eva's neck. SEWARD: Is it him? HARKER: Well, believe me, I do not want to offend you, but your words seem more appropriate for one of the patients here. HELSING: Si, and the physicians of this country as well as the police will believe that. Vampires get stronger when people refuse to believe in them. SHORTLY THEREAFTER Outside the Seward House Eva enters the garden where Dracula awaits her MEANWHILE In the Seward Parlour Van Helsing, Seward and Harker talk on SEWARD: But professor, according to your own theory, the vampire must go back to his grave before dawn. He must go back to his native land which is the place where he was buried. Now Conde Dracula's native land is Transylvania! HELSING: Then he must have brought the earth with him. Perhaps in boxes big enough to serve as his bed. Offstage: Renfield laughs Enter Renfield from the terrace SEWARD: Come on. Come on. Renfield? What were you doing over there? Come on. Come with me. Renfield, did you hear what we were saying? RENFIELD: Pay attention to what he is telling you. That is the only salvation you have left. And the same is true for her. Renfield kneels before Van Helsing RENFIELD: Save me. Save my soul. Save me, save me, save me! I am weak, you are strong. I am crazy, you are sane. HELSING: I will save you, but you must tell us whatever you know. RENFIELD: Fool. Fool. And I thought you were a wise man. What do I stand to gain by telling you everything? That physician keeps me locked in here all day. And when I behave nicely, he gives me a bit of sugar so that I can catch flies. But if I serve the Master...An intelligent madman would rather serve the one who can grant him life. HELSING: Him? Who are you talking about? RENFIELD: Why should we mention names among friends, Professor? HELSING: What kind of ties do you have with Dracula? RENFIELD: Dracula? I had never heard that name before. HELSING: You are lying. RENFIELD: Crazy people, Professor, do not have the faculty to distinguish between what is true and false. For this reason, I do not take offense. Renfield turns to Dr. Seward RENFIELD: I begged you to let me out, but you did not want to. Now it is too late. It has already happened. HARKER: What has happened? RENFIELD: I dare not say it. I dare not. I would die in torment if I tried to. HELSING: And you shall die in torment if you let innocent blood stain your soul. RENFIELD: No! God will not condemn the soul of a poor madman. He knows that the power of evil is too big for the poor in spirit to get rid of it. HELSING: Then, Renfield, trust me. Tell me what I want to know. RENFIELD: What do you want to know? HELSING: The name of the creature that has deranged your mind. The one you call 'Master'. RENFIELD: No! Don't ask me that! Don't ask me that! No! Don't ask me that! No! No!. HELSING: You must tell us. RENFIELD: Leave me alone. Leave me alone. HELSING: Renfield, tell us before it is too late. Before your soul is damned forever. RENFIELD: I shall tell you. I shall tell you. Enter Bat RENFIELD: Master, master. I was not going to tell them anything. I have not told them anything. I am faithful to you, Master. I am faithful. Offstage: Maid screams Enter Maid onto the Terrace MAID: Dr. Seward! Dr. Seward! Senorita Eva...over there...dead! Exit Harker, Van Helsing and Seward to garden RENFIELD: (laughs) MAID: (faints) Renfield crawls to maid and peers at her exposed throat On the Sanatarium Lawn Van Helsing and Seward find Eva HARKER: (carries Eva to her room) A FEW MOMENTS LATER In Eva's Bedroom Seward, Harker and Van Helsing stand at Eva's bedside SEWARD: Thank God, she is still alive. HELSING: She is alive, but she is at great risk. She is under his influence. SEWARD: That would be terrible. I cannot believe it. HELSING: Nevertheless, that is true. We must put an end to it. We must confront it. LATER THAT EVENING On the terrace Harker paces Enter Martin MARTIN: Is Dr. Seward around? HARKER: No, what do you need? MARTIN: That blockhead has fled again. And he is capable of doing any foolishness. HARKER: Dr. Seward and his famous scholar are in the abbey chasing vampires. MARTIN: Vampires. Blockheads. Look, Senor Harker, if there is a brave man after my job, let him have it. I am going to look for work at another sanatarium where the crazy people are nice and reasonable. Let them think they are Napoleon or kings. Something worthy of my time. THAT NIGHT A Park in London Enter a lady dressed in white THE NEXT MORNING The Seward Sanatarium Martin reads the newspaper to three nurses MARTIN: "The mysterious lady in white, that merciless scourge of childhood, once again played one of her tricks last night a little after nightfall. The testimony given by two girls...they both confirm that it is a beautiful lady dressed in white whose modus operandi is to offer candy to her victim. Then she lures her victim to a deserted corner where she bites the victim's neck delicately. LATER THAT AFTERNOON, NEAR SUNDOWN Eva's Sitting Room Eva reads the newspaper Van Helsing and Harker stand nearby HARKER: What does she know about the lady in white? Why would she know anything about it? She should not have read that. HELSING: Por favor, Senor Harker. Helsing turns to Eva HELSING: And when did you see Lucia again after she was buried? EVA: Once, when I was on the terrace. She came out of the shadows. She came towards me. She stopped and stared at me. I began to tell her something, and then I remembered that she was dead. Her face took a horrible expression, the look of a hungry beast, as if she were a wolf. She turned around, and she got lost again amidst the fog. HELSING: So, the woman dressed in white was... EVA: Lucia. HELSING: Senorita, I promise you that from this day on Lucia will rest in peace. Her soul will be forever freed of that awful appetite. EVA: Since you can save Lucia's soul after her death, promise me that you will save mine, too. HARKER: But you will not die, my love. You will live. EVA: No. No, Juan, you must not touch me. And you must not kiss me. Never, ever. HARKER: What are you talking about? EVA: Professor, explain it to him. Tell him. I can't. Exit Van Helsing HARKER: Eva! EVA: Juan, it is all over between the two of us. Our love, our wedding projects. Please, Juan, don't look at me like that. I love you. I love you more than anything else. But this terrible thing! He wants it to be this way. And I must obey. Harker turns to Van Helsing HARKER: Do you know what you are doing? You are driving her crazy. Van Helsing opens the terrace doors and points outside HELSING: Senor Harker, you should be worried about that. The last rays of sunshine are gone. The night is threatening us again. Van Helsing closes the terrace doors Enter Seward HELSING: We have already put aconite in this room and in your bedroom to free you from Dracula, in case he comes back. HARKER: She will be totally free of him. Either she goes back to London with me or I call the police. HELSING: Seward, my friend, I am in charge here or whatever I do will be useless. Enter Nursemaid Marta Van Helsing shows her a twig of aconite HELSING: Senorita Eva must keep this branch of aconite in her sleep. Be careful. She must not drop it while she is asleep. Exit Harker HELSING: These windows must remain locked at night, no matter what. MARTA: I understand, Professor. SEWARD: Come, my daughter. Come on. Seward and Marta led Eva to her bedroom THAT EVENING The lawn on the Sanatarium grounds Dracula looks up at Renfield's cell window In Renfield's Cell Renfield sits alone on his bed Enter bat RENFIELD: Si, Master. You have come back, Master. Are you angry at me? No, no, Master. Por favor. Not her! Never again. No, Master. No! Not her! No! No! Por favor! No, Master. No, por favor! LATER THAT EVENING The Seward Parlour Van Helsing, Harker and Seward stand talking HELSING: Senor Harker, I have devoted my life to the study of the strangest things...to little known facts that maybe the world had better ignore. But I quietly accept vulgar things. Dracula's name is associated to a legend that is still told among Dracula's fellow countrymen. This legend alludes to an old family that disappeared about five centuries ago and was supposed to be formed by vampires. As I discovered, by chance, that Dracula was not reflected in the mirror, and besides that three big boxes had been sent to Carfax Abbey, and I also knew that a vampire must sleep during the day in his native land. I understood at once that Dracula had to be the person who Renfield calls 'Master', a being who is not dead and has been able to prolong his life beyond the natural limits, feeding himself on the blood of other living creatures. We can only save Eva if we find the place where the living corpse of the vampire rests and we drive a stake through his heart. Renfield is seen listening outside the terrace doors Harker throws open the doors He pulls Renfield into the parlour RENFIELD: What a strange conversation for men who are not crazy. SEWARD: Renfield, you will force me to put you in a straitjacket. RENFIELD: I am afraid that it will be useless at this point. In Eva's Sitting Room Eva turns in her sleep Her hand knocks the aconite twig from the pillow Marta returns it to the pillow SHORTLY THEREAFTER The Sanitarium Ward Martin speaks on the telephone MARTIN: What? What are you saying, Doctor? Again? I am on my way, Sir. Immediately, Senor Doctor. The doctor's favourite lunatic is at large again. Martin opens the door to Renfield's cell MARTIN: My goodness! This Barbarian must be Hercules! NURSE: What has he done now? MARTIN: Come and see for yourself. The bars on the cell window are bent In Eva's Sitting Room Dracula holds Marta entranced DRACULA: From now on, any mental suggestion that you receive from me must be executed. Whenever I want you to do something, it has to be done. MARTA: It has to be done. DRACULA: When you come out of this state, you will remember nothing of what I am telling you now. Do you understand? MARTA: I understand. DRACULA: I have alrady told you what you must do. Now, obey. Dracula and Marta enter Eva's bedroom Marta removes the aconite from Eva's pillow Exit Marta Dracula bends over Eva's sleeping body The Seward Parlour Renfield talks to Van Helsing, Harker and Seward HELSING: Renfield, you know where those boxes are. Tell us and we shall protect you. RENFIELD: But I no longer need your protection. the Master is not angry with me. On the contrary, he is satisfied. He came up to my window, under the moonlight, and he promised things to me. Not to say them. To do them. HELSING: To do them? RENFIELD: Si. Trying to make it happen. A red mist spread on the lawn, and came towards me as a raging fire. Then, the Master tore open the mist and showed before my eyes thousands of rats, their eyes enflamed as his, but smaller. He rose his hand, and all of them stopped. I thought he was telling me: Rats! Rats! Rats! Thousands, millions of rats! And in each one of them, a life full with red blood. This is equivalent to many years of life. I shall give you all these beings. Si, and many more! For countless generations! But you have to obey. HELSING: What did he want you to do? RENFIELD: What has already been done. HELSING: Dracula is in the house. RENFIELD: Where else did you expect him to be? Exit Harker to Eva's room HELSING: He will not be able to do us harm. We have put the aconite. Enter Martin MARTIN: Oh, here you are! Por Dios, this man is going to drive me crazy. He has just twisted and broken the iron bars as if they were mere toothpicks. SEWARD: Come with me, Martin. Let me show you a place from which he will not flee again. Let us go. MARTIN: You might be right, but I shall quote Saint Thomas. Exit Seward, Renfield and Martin DRACULA: Van Helsing! Now that you have found out what you have found out, it would be advisable that you go back to your country. HELSING: I intend to stay and protect those you would like to annihilate. DRACULA: It is too late. Dracula's blood is already flowing in Senorita Seward's veins. She will live for all eternity as I myself have. HELSING: Suppose that you get away, Dracula, we know how to save Senorita Eva's soul if not her life. MOMENTS LATER In Eva's Sitting Room Enter Eva from the Bedroom EVA: Of course, I am all right. I have never felt better in my whole life. Harker stares at Eva EVA: Tell me, why are you staring at me like that? HARKER: You are so...it is almost unbelievable. You look like somebody else. My love, you look great. EVA: And I feel great. But it is stuffy in here. And this smell. It is the wreath of flowers the Professor wanted me to...Marta! Enter Marta MARTA: Si, Senorita? EVA: Throw away that awful wreath of flowers, will you, Marta? And do me a favour. Open the window to let air in. MARTA: But, Senorita, the Professor will not approve of that. HARKER: Do not worry about him. Marta opens the terrace doors and removes the aconite wreath Eva and Harker stroll out onto the terrace EVA: It's much better here. HARKER: I am glad to see you like this. I was really worried about you. EVA: I do not know what was wrong with me. It is as if I were coming out of a nightmare. Juan, the moonlight is beautiful, isn't it? Look, have you ever seen so many starts. Millions and millions, and they seem to be very close. As if it were possible to reach them with your hand. HARKER: Would you like me to offer you a handful of them? MEANWHILE In the Seward Parlour Dracula and Van Helsing confront each other DRACULA: Do not forget, Van Helsing, in the last years those who crossed my path paid for it with their own lives. And some of them in a very unpleasant way. Van Helsing backs away DRACULA: Come here. Van Helsing attempts to reach into his pocket DRACULA: Stop! You shall not move your hand unless I want you to. Dracula points to an open box on a table DRACULA: Take out whatever you have in there and put it in this box. Van Helsing reaches into his pocket Dracula shields his eyes with his cape Van Helsing removes a crucifix DRACULA: Hurry up. Van Helsing closes the lid on the box but holds onto the crucifix DRACULA: Have you obeyed me? HELSING: Si, I have. Dracula unshields his face Van Helsing holds up the crucifix DRACULA: (snarls and turns away) Exit Dracula through terrace doors On Eva's Terrace Eva and Harker sit together HARKER: Si, you told me that. EVA: Oh, no, Juan. HARKER: What do you mean? EVA: I could have never told you such a foolish thing. You have made it up. HARKER: No, you told me that the night frightened you. EVA: And what is there at night that may frighten me? I love nights. It is the only time when I really live, I guess. Enter Bat HARKER: Be careful. A bat. It may get tangled in your hair. BAT: (squeaks) EVA: Si, I shall do it. I shall do it. HARKER: You will do what? EVA: Me? I did not say anything. HARKER: I thought you did. God, that bat is huge. EVA: Juan, I want you to promise me something. HARKER: Wahtever you want, my love. Whatever you ask for. Van Helsing listens from behind the terrace door EVA: That intrusive professor and his herbs. I cannot stand him any longer. Will you do me a favour and take them away? And the crucifix, take it away from him, too. He will say that he wants to protect me again from the night, from Conde Dracula, from whatever. HARKER: I do not know what to believe. But he might be right. He has told me terrible things about that Conde Dracula. EVA: (laughs hysterically) Dr. Seward joins Van Helsing at the terrace door They continue to eavesdrop unnoticed Eva entwines her arms around Harker's neck HARKER: What is that? What is wrong with you? EVA: Why? HARKER: Your eyes! Your look is so strange. Eva bends forward to bite Harker's neck SEWARD: Don't, Eva! Helsing runs forward with crucifix EVA: (screams and faints) SEWARD: Eva, my daughter! HARKER: It is all right, Eva, my love. EVA: The cross, Juan! After what happened, I cannot look at it. HARKER: What happened? EVA: I cannot tell you, I cannot. HARKER: You must tell me. I have a right to know. EVA: Dracula...he came. He cut open a vein in his arm, and he forced me to drink. Eva faints again Offstage: Sound of gunshot HELSING: (looking over terrace wall) What is that? Out on the Lawn Martin aims a gun The Maid runs in circles HELSING: Who is it, Martin? MARTIN: A bat, Professor. Very big and very black. HELSING: Don't waste your pellets. It is useless. That bat will never be wounded. MARTIN: What can we do? MAID: (whispering to Martin) He is crazy. MARTIN: They are all crazy. All of them except me and you. And sometimes, I doubt even about you. Maid exits in a huff LATE THAT NIGHT In Eva's Bedroom Eva sleeps Marta sits in a chair reading Dracula peers in window MARTA: (drops book, removes aconite and opens windows) Enter Dracula Exit Marta Dracula wills Eva to awaken Offstage: A woman's scream rings out The Front Gate of the Sanitarium Van Helsing and Harker emerge from the fog HELSING: It was a good deed to drive a stake through the heart of that poor girl. Now her soul will rest in peace. HARKER: Let us go to the Abbey. MEANWHILE Inside Carfax Abbey Dracula carries Eva Enter Renfield RENFIELD: Master! Master, I'm here! Master! Master, here I am! Here I am. From offstage: Harker's voice HARKER: Eva! Eva! Outside Carfax Abbey Van Helsing and Harker look for a way into the Abbey HARKER: Look. An opening in the wall! Harker shouts through the opening into the Abbey HARKER: Eva! Eva! Harker and Van Helsing follow grope along the Abbey wall HARKER: He entered through here. Inside Carfax Abbey Renfield backs away from Dracula RENFIELD: I haven't brought them here, Master! I swear! I didn't know, Master. Master! DRACULA: Wait! RENFIELD: Master! Master! I have always been faithful. I am your slave. I did not betray you. Dracula lays Eva on the stairs and advances toward Renfield RENFIELD: Do not kill me, Master! Punish me! Torture me! But let me live! I cannot go before God with so many deaths on my conscience and so much blood on my hands! Dracula strangles Renfield, throws his body over the stairs, and returns to pick up Eva In the Abbey Courtyard Dracula enters the crypt, carrying Eva The crypt door closes behind him Harker and Van Helsing follow but find the door locked HARKER: Eva! Eva! HELSING: With that crowbar, Harker! Harker picks up a crowbar and beats on the door SUNRISE Inside the crypt Dracula prepares to drink from Eva Sunlight streams through a nearby window EVA: (awakens and screams) Outside the crypt Harker finally breaks open the door HARKER: I have got it! Harker and Van Helsing rush into the crypt HARKER: Eva, we are here! Eva! Eva! Eva! Eva! HELSING: Harker! Harker! I have found them. Look. Harker looks at Dracula lying in an open coffin HELSING: His life as a vampire is coming to its end. HARKER: And Eva? HELSING: You must be brave. Go find a rock. Anything I can use to drive the stake through his heart. Harker brings back an iron bar HARKER: And Eva? Is she...? Van Helsing points to her empty coffin HELSING: She is not here. HARKER: Then she is still alive! Harker runs deeper into the crypt HARKER: Where are you?! Offstage: The sound of pounding followed by death gasps HARKER: Eva! Eva! Where are you? Eva! Eva! Eva runs into Harker's arms HARKER: You are safe, Eva. You are safe. EVA: Oh, Juan! You should have seen his horrible face when he saw the sunlight! HELSING: There is nothing to fear, now. Dracula is dead forever. Harker and Eva begin to leave the crypt Van Helsing does not follow HARKER: Aren't you coming with us? HELSING: I am staying. I shall do good on my promise to Renfield. Exit Harker and Eva FIN