The Seal of Dracula

Christopher Lee talks about his Dracula ring and why he didn't speak in ...

“This ring is a copy of a similar ring 

worn by a Central European actor;

His ame was Bela Lugosi — 

now, that that's the correct way of pronouncing it 

but that was probably 

a little bit too much for people to take 

and so he became immortalised 

under The Name of Bela Lugosi —

He made His Name, as indeed did I, in the playing 

of a certain rather strange Transylvanian nobleman…

It might interest you to know that Transylvania still exists 

and I've been there and the name of that no woman of course immortalised in one book and known throughout the world now was quite simply the word Dracula 

I wore this me I can't remember how many pictures I explore again that bar but I certainly did Wed his son as a tribute to Lugosi so I wore this ring the picture that we are referring to that I'm talking about now in a more particular sense is called Dracula : Prince of Darkness which is the second 

Dracula picture that I was in and interestingly enough 

there was a gap of something like seven years between 

the first one/second while because I think,

the first one was made in 1957 or 8 and 

the second one certainly was made in 1965.

People all over the world who've seen that film 

have asked me why I didn't speak in it 

I didn't say work growing powerful 

The Answer is very simple :

I got The Script and the lines were literally unsayable, 

they were not Bram Stoker this was a great fight 

I used to have over the years with ham I kept on saying 

“Why don't you use Stoker's words, 

Stoker's dialogue?”

if you like so somebody used to write up lines like 

I am the apocalypse and I mean beyond belief 

so I said “I'm sorry I'm not saying these lines 

you know, you could get a terrific laughs 

which I'm quite convinced 

we would have done