I'm Mark Seal.

And I'm Nathan King.

This is Leave the Gun, Take the Canoli.

The five families did not want us to shoot that picture.

This podcast is based on my co-host Mark Seal's best-selling book of the same title.

Leave the Gun Take the Canoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford

Kobola, Robert Evans, James Kahn, Talia Shire, and many others.

Yes, that was a real horse's head.

Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun Take the Canoli on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact,

a short-form series from Stuff to Blow Your Mind focusing on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time.

At last, I can speak to you of the most recent cinematic treatment of Count Orlock,

the off-brand Dracula from 1922's Nosferatu, a symphony of horror,

who went on to become a horror icon in his own right.

We have to remember that in 1922, Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was only

35 years old. In fact, F.W. Murnau's unauthorized adaptation drew the ire of Stoker's

widow, whose legal actions threatened to see all copies of the now legendary silent film destroyed.

Luckily, of course, Murnau's masterpiece survived. As horror film historian David J. Skao points out in his book,

V is for Vampire, the A to Z Guide to Everything Undead,

the German expressionist picture can largely be seen as a, quote,

metaphor of the plague-like destruction of Germany in World War I.

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