Dracula père et fils

Plot:

Christopher Lee dons the Count's legendary cape once again for this satirical French-made entry in the vampire genre (titled Dracula and Son for American release). It seems Dracula's son (Bernard Ménez) is a bit reluctant to carry on the family's blood-drinking tradition on account of severe squeamishness. This understandable rift is widened when the Dracula family is banished from Romania by the new communist regime, and they end up traveling their separate ways -- Ménez goes to France, while Lee, oddly enough, finds a lucrative career in British horror films (perish the thought!). They are reunited again at the premiere of one such film, where they meet and fall in love with the same woman). Directed by Edouard Molinaro, known best for his international comedy hit La Cage aux Folles, this was a very witty film prior to its decimation by an uncaring American distributor, who not only excised many of the jokes but also replaced them with horribly-written, sophomoric gags.

Cast:

Christopher Lee as Dracula père / Le prince des Ténèbres / Prince of Darkness
Bernard Menez as Ferdinand Poitevin, fils d'Herminie et du prince des Ténèbres / Son
Marie-Hélène Breillat as Nicole Clement
Catherine Breillat as Herminie Poitevin
Mustapha Dali as Khaleb
Bernard Alane as Jean - le fiancé de Nicole
Claude Génia as Marguerite
Jean-Claude Dauphin as Cristéa / Christian Polanski
Anna Gaël as Miss Gaylor
Gérard Jugnot as Le responsable de l'usine
Raymond Bussières as L'homme âgé à l'ANPE
Xavier Depraz as Le majordome
Anna Prucnal
Jean Lescot
Albert Simono as Le vendeur de cercueils
Arlette Balkis
Geoffrey Carey
Lyne Chardonnet as L'infirmière
Robert Dalban as Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel
Carlo Nell
Guy Piérauld
Jean-Marie Arnoux
Jacques Boudet
Branko
Véronique Dancier
Jean-François Dérec as Le gardien de l'hôpital
Louise Dhour
Jean-François Duhamel
Cédric Dumond
Tudor Eliad
Patrick Feigelson as A Soldier
Jean-Paul Franky
Jacques Galland
Gill Gam
Jean-Pierre Garrigues
Maitena Galli
Jean-Yves Gautier
Raoul Guylad
Jacqueline Hopstein
Peter J. Kavanagh
Daniel Léger
Lucienne Legrand
Robert Lestourneaud
Sylvain Levignac
Colin Mann
Moz-Djer
Patrice Pascal
Olivier Pierre
Henry Pillsbury (as Henri Pillsbury)
Daniel Popescu
Paul Rieger
Pierre-Olivier Scotto
Jean-Louis Tristan
Dominique Zardi as Un agent rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marthe Villalonga as Une femme dans le métro (uncredited)