Same way they can get rid of bloodstains so easily. Vampires are non-stick.
Oooh, great band name: Teflon Vampires
I think we can rule out Star Of David, if that is an accurate reproduction. From your website:
“The original prop is a star shaped sunburst and has six crescent & star finials. This motif is very common in the late 19th and early 20th century Islamic world and is seen on many antique medals and decorations of that period from the Ottoman Empire and Kingdom of Afghanistan which bear striking similarities to the original prop. Both of those political entities were recently dissolved or in the process of dissolution at the time that Dracula was produced and it can be presumed that quantities of their military surplus material were available on the open market and would not have been considered particularly valuable.”
And it’s the same medallion as in @sneakylemur’s link in post 33.
No branch of Judaism accepts the concept of Christ as savior. (Unless you count Messianic Judaism, but that probably belongs in another thread.)
There’s also the scene in The Mummy (1999) where a character being menaced by the titular monster pulls out a crucifix pendent. And when that doesn’t work, he pulls out an Islamic crescent pendent. And when that doesn’t work, he pulls out fistful of religious pendants, and starts going through them one by one, trying to find one that will hold the monster off.
Deputy Dracula?
Concur.
This site says it’s probably the Ottoman Medal Order of Medjidie.
The Order of Medjidie was a medal given to many men, both Turkish and foreign. A number of British officers were awarded the medal. One was given to British author Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the Sherlock Holmes stories, because the Ottoman Sultan like his stories.
There are many places which sell replicas of the Dracula medal with various designs. Some replicas have an Ottoman Toughra in the center. The Toughra was the Sultan’s ornate signature used on coins. Other replicas have a sun-moon design.
Nice medal.
Here is another similar thread…
CalMeacham’s two posts mention not seeing the medallion in the movie. Does everyone else remember the medallion in the movie?
This link has the reason for him not wearing the medallion all the time…
“Dracula at home vs. in society. His home look is only slightly less formal, with subtle stripes on his tie and waistcoat, the added medallion around his neck, and his collar wings worn over the tie.”
Scroll until you see the two side-by-side pictures of Dracula.
And being Transylvanian, Dracula would have been an Ottoman subject for about a century and a half, though not while the Order of Medjidie was in existence.
Except the Order of Medjidie appears to have seven-fold symmetry. If Lugosi’s medal was based on the Medjidie pendant, it was drastically changed.
but wouldn’t that be some sort of antisemitic meme?
Hadnagy (lieutenant) Blaskó Béla Ferenc Dezső (Bela Lugosi) was wounded twice while serving in the Hungarian Honvéd on the Eastern Front in WWI. Two acquisitions he’d share with many other survivors was an addiction to drugs and a wound medal. But that’s not what he wore as Dracula. Obvious by its appearance as well as his disdain on the rare occasions when he mentioned the war.
It’s not any Romanian medal I could find online (and Lord, are there so many of those!). Nor does it look like a too-easily recognizable US military medal. So my WAG is that, from the multitude of medals to be found in Los Angeles pawn shops during the Great Depression, it might be from the many mens’ fraternal orders that littered the cultural landscape of the era.
In the “Night Gallery” vignette “The Devil Is not Mocked,” a kid has asked his grandfather what he did in “The Great War” [sic]. He then proceeds to recount in a flashback what happened when some German soldiers came to occupy his castle. . . in Transylvania! He tells his grandson, “For, while many are the charges made against our ancestors, let no man deny our patriotism!”
Needless to say, the Germans picked the wrong castle to occupy.
It then cuts back to the present with the grandfather saying, “And that, dear child, is how your grandfather served his country in the *Great War.” The camera then pans to a medallion on a mantle. The first time I saw it in reruns, I thought it was a six-pointed star, but no, it has eight.
Just my 2¢ to add to vampires and medal(lion)s.
*(OK, in general WWI, not the sequel, is referred to as “The Great War,” but it’s just a TV program, not a doc.)
Tidbit: The grandfather is played by Francis Lederer who played Dracula in a 1958 movie. The Night Gallery episode was his last acting role. He lived to the age of 100.
ETA: Read F. Paul Wilson’s The Keep sometime and see if it rings a bell viz a certain Night Gallery episode.
There was a big outcry back in 1987 when people noticed that Count Chocula appeared to be wearing a Star of David medal on the cereal box. I guess they copied it from the movie:
Ha! I have read “The Keep,” and saw the similarities at the time, even though I had seen the NG episode years earlier.
I was really looking forward to the movie; What a bummer! I still can’t decide who gets the blame for that misstep.
In the year-end Esquire magazine where they gave out their “Dubious Achievement Awards,” one of the things they had was “Now Playing in the Hell Octoplex.” One year they had “The Keep” and maybe the same year “Red Dawn.” The movie let me down, too, but for what it was, I didn’t think it was that bad.
No one ever points out that the only thing Chocula could bite (with those chompers of his) is a pre-pull tab can of Pabst Blue Ribbon. 