Memorable Movie Quotes
Wilbur Grey: I’ve had this brain for thirty years. It hasn’t done me any good!
Chick Young: I saw what I saw when I saw it!
Wilbur Grey: Dracula is Dracula. And Sandra’s gonna use my brain to make a bigger dummy out of the other dummy.
Trivia
Lou Costello did not want to make the movie, declaring, “No way I’ll do that crap. My little girl could write something better than this.” A $50,000 advance in salary and the signing of director Charles Barton, the team’s good friend and the man who some call their best director, convinced him otherwise.
Bela Lugosi’s last involvement in a film for a major studio (Universal).
The animation sequences of Dracula-as-a-bat and Dracula-changing-from-bat-to-Dracula were done by Universal-International’s animator, Walter Lantz (of Woody Woodpecker fame).
In 2001 the Library of Congress selected this film for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Quentin Tarantino has cited this film as a big influence on him on how to blend different genres.
Goofs
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play characters named Chick and Wilbur in this film, but occasionally address each other as Bud and Lou. This was out of habit because these actors usually used their own names for their fictional personalities.
It was well established that the Monster was terrified of fire. He would not have walked into the flames on the dock.
According to “The Wolf Man,” a person who is bitten by a werewolf and lives, becomes a werewolf himself. In this movie, Larry Talbot says that he was bitten by a werewolf and becomes a wolf when the moon is full. At the masquerade, McDougal was bitten by Larry Talbot. The following night, Larry Talbot turns into a wolf again, but McDougal does not.
In the House of Horrors, when the candle slides across the lid of the coffin as Wilbur reads the card, the wire that prevents the candle from sliding completely off the coffin can be seen.
While Dracula, in bat form, is floating outside the castle window looking in on Professor Stevens, the wire that holds the fake bat can be seen.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget: $,800,000
Gross: $4,796,000
Filming Locations
Benedict Castle, Riverside, California, USA
Stage 19, Universal Studios – 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA (house of horrors set)
Stage 15, Universal Studios – 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA (hotel room set)
Stage 17, Universal Studios – 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Stage 6, Universal Studios – 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Universal Studios – 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA (studio)