Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966)
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Billy the Kid versus Dracula
Billy the Kid contra DrĂ¡cula [Spanish]
Billy the Kid gegen Dracula [German]
Billy the Kid kohtaa Draculan [Finnish]
Billy the Kid kontra Drakula [Polish]
Tagline(s): | Billy The Kid Is Down For "The Count"! |
| The West's Deadliest Gun-Fighter! The World's Most Diabolical Killer! |
| The World's Most Diabolical Killer! The West's Deadliest Gunfighter! |
| The Youngest of Gun-Slingers! Against the Most Vicious of Vampires! |
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Nomination Year: 1994
SYNOPSIS: In this move, Dracula (John Carradine) starts sucking right away. This time, for no good reason, his victims are in the Old West. Drac finds a beautiful female rancher and poses as her long-lost uncle as he plots to make her his undead bride. Thus entrenched in the town, the vampire is free to suck blood by night. One problem: this rancher-gal is
the Billy the Kid's girlfriend. Billy, with the help of the town's granny-like doctor, eventually uncovers and defeats the ancient evil (lamely), rescuing his ladylove from a fate not nearly as bad as this film.
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Most Ludicrous Premise |
A Dumb Blonde The film's title just about says it all. What's Dracula doing in the Wild West, anyway? Here, in the very first scene of the movie, he sucks on a pioneer girl who happens to be from Romania. A fake bat-on-a-string lands behind the family's covered wagon, then a second later, out walks John Carradine. He heads for the sleeping bags and leans over his wide-awake victim, who seems unable or unwilling to defend herself or cry out.
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Best One-Liner |
That's an Understatement Billy the Kid is talking with Henrietta, an old woman who's the local country doctor. He asks her for her advice on what's happening, and eventually the topic of conversation turns to vampires. "I been readin' up on the subject," the Doc tells Billy. There is a short, uncomfortable pause before she continues: "It's pretty spooky!"
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"Whoops!" |
"And I Vould Like an Order of Garlic Bread To Go, Please." Dracula is coming downstairs from his room at the local saloon. If you look carefully as he walks across the bar-room, you can see that Dracula, King of Vampires somehow shows up in the big bar mirror. Of course, the fact that vampires don't show up in mirrors is emphasized later in the picture.
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"WHAT?!" |
Good Thing He Dunked His Six-Shooter in Holy Water Before He Left His true nature finally revealed, Dracula kidnaps Billy's fiancee and spirits her to an old cave, where he intends to transform her into his vampiric bride forever. Billy shows up, but is quickly overpowered by the vampire's strength. Suddenly, two of Billy's friends -- the town's lady doctor and the sheriff -- rush into the room. The sheriff pulls out a six-shooter and empties it at Dracula. Dracula laughs. "Your bullets can't hurt me...or her, now." The fiend indicates the inert woman. At this point, Billy recovers from where he lay stunned. Snarling "Gimme that!" he grabs the empty gun from the dumbfounded sheriff and hurls it at the vampire. Now, you'd expect that would be even less effective than shooting him, but no. Instead, the gun hits Dracula smack in the forehead and knocks him unconscious! Seizing his opportunity, Billy grabs a handy nearby stake and does the obvious. The "stake" is really a railroad spike, and it makes nice metallic sounds as he pounds it into John Carridine's chest. Then, for no good reason, a bat flies out of the cave, drops to the ground, and begins to smoulder and roast in the sunlight outdoors. None of us could figure out what in blazes that was supposed to mean, because Dracula's body is still clearly on the floor of the cavern in the next shot, where Billy proclaims: "That'll get him for what he did to Betty." Yes, but who will avenge us viewers? And remember, folks: guns don't kill people. They kill vampires. Ah, just forget it.
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Directors
Director |
Claim to Fame |
William Beaudine |
Director of hundreds of schlocky films, he earned the nickname
"One-Shot" for his tendency to ignore errors rather than reshoot
a scene. In other words...pure Smithee gold. |
Cast
Actor |
Character |
Claim to Fame |
Chuck Courtney |
Billy the Kid |
An over 40-year career in film/TV, he did
mostly Westerns, but also was Bill Baterman
in Pet Sematary and the
Motorcycle Rider in The Gumball
Rally! |
John Carradine |
Count Dracula |
A great Shakespearean actor, his deep
voice is
instantly recognizable, as is his
presence in many, many
mediocre horror films toward the end of
his career. Did
everything from The Ten
Commandments to
Dracula. Lent his voice to
the Great Owl in
The Secret of N.I.M.H..
Father of actor/kung
fu guy David. |
Melinda Plowman |
Betty Bentley |
AKA "Melinda Casey," did a lot of small
parts in '50s and '60s TV shows. |
Virginia Christine |
Eva Oster |
Despite a long career as a character
actress (Wilma Lentz in Invasion
of the Body Snatchers, Hilary St.
George in Guess Who's Coming to
Dinner, Princess Ananka in
The Mummy's Curse, Mrs.
Halbestadt in Judgment at
Nuremberg), she will weirdly be
remembered as "Mrs. Olsen" from the
Folger's commercials. |
Bing Russel |
Dan |
Made regular appearances in Disney's
live-action flicks (Blackbeard's
Ghost, The Love Bug,
The Million Dollar Duck,
The Apple Dumpling Gang), but is best
known as the deputy on "Bonanza"
and Robert in The Magnificant
Seven. |
George Cisar |
Joe Flake |
Often typecast as a cop, he was Sgt.
Mooney on "Dennis the Menace"; Cyrus on
"The Andy Griffith Show"; and Lem in
Attack of the Giant
Leeches. |
Harry Carey, Jr. |
Ben Dooley |
Son of the famous silent star; played
cowboys, mostly, but had a long career.
Was Bill Burnett on the "Adventures
of Spin and Marty" series; was in
Mask (Red), a saloon patron
in Back to the Future Part
III; Mr. Anderson in
Gremlins. And lots of old
TV. |
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