Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
爱情合乎道理，却失去真正的情感，与王苹导演曾流露的细腻情感抒写有所不同，全然为了革命叙事所服务。深究为什么选择黄丽芬，不过是因为人物思想不够成熟，需要革命者的帮助才可走向成长。两人的孩子也是不明不白，若能适当增加些许微妙的感情戏，想必影片会有另一番风景。姚苇这一可笑的人物，最终也没变得可悲，有些扁平化。
太长，只是乱打，没有家国情怀，没法共情。编剧不行
五星红旗如此鲜艳夺目，是革命先辈用鲜血染红的！
①无论是学校里的李白雕像，或者是我作为第一届李白团支部的成员，李白始终是作为抽象符号出现，电影也不能避免，反而是兰芬这个角色，真正完成了某种形象的塑造。②彩色修复仍有瑕疵，比如把黑白照片都修复成彩色了。不过结局牺牲的画面由彩色转为黑白，挺好的表达方式。（2021-12-29）
之前看时代舞台里面很多这部电影的线索所以这次看到有排片就赶紧抢了。孙道临好像李安哦。这场有蛮多姨姨叔叔的，有几个一直在讲话，不讲武德烦死了。
院线重映。开场李侠出发去上海之前，骑马的时候是个全景，他是真的在骑马，离开的背影好酷啊，其实那个时候就已经想好最后一幕的“永别”了吧。
确实没有想到一部历经岁月的电影如今依旧风采熠熠。那个年代特有的舞台剧风格让剧情整体紧凑扣人，缺点肯定是有的，但我愿成为十一最佳电影。
看看老一辈艺术家的作品，可以看到真诚两个字贯穿整部电影。这是现在很多作品中看不到的～
现在看这些电影，为体现英雄把敌人拍的很笨的拍摄方法真不行，隐蔽战线的现实远比电影更残酷
去看舞剧前终于补完了经典电影版本。孙道临老师的李侠真的非常合适！向那些为我们的新生活付出生命的先辈们致敬！现在看此类电影时总是会忍不住泪如雨下，也许是真的开始成长起来了。
头一次在大银幕上看如此久远的影片，而且还是彩色修复版本，虽然有个别色彩上的掉帧不同步，但总体修复的还算可以。剧情就不用说了，经典中的经典，几位老表演艺术家教科书般的演技，再加上彩色画面的映衬，显得更加立体鲜活饱满。以后希望更多的黑白老片子能够彩色修复后在电影院重映，让我们90后00后能在大银幕上欣赏到更多建国初期的经典作品。
孙道临真帅啊。 前排的爷爷奶奶从八一两个字出来开始就一直在拍照。
广州大剧院放映场，这样一部 1958 年的老革命电影和多少年后前来回味的大爷大妈一同观看别有一番景象。郭富城、赵丽颖主演的《密战》可能就是翻拍自该片吧。结构完整，主旨鲜明。相较于电影本身，开场前主持人的背景知识介绍更为引人入胜。电影以真实事件为基础，当事人参与了不少拍摄工作，却拒绝一切署名权益，包括婉拒顾问头衔。可以说与影片的革命牺牲精神交相辉映。然而元老李锐先生生前对女儿的一席话又将历史拉回现实。
時代的記憶，今天來看似乎只剩文獻和紀念的價值...（且實在搞不懂修復版上色的意義在哪
“第七穿插连应到一百五十七人，实到一人！”
整体比上一部观感好一些。文武戏节奏比例均尚可，也更贴近生活实际，战争场面调度不够清晰，配乐过多。张涵予最后的出场是个好句号。
* 二刷 2020年2月8日
片子各方面在老国片里挺不错，剧作上的起伏设计，流畅剪辑的技巧，固然通病也是存在的，但总体上能够让我看进去，并愿意看下去，就此而言本片修复乃至复映的价值是可以肯定的。
看到最后一幕，突然觉得李侠是疲倦而压抑的。他的向往始终是快意恩仇的战场，而不是虚以委蛇的敌后，只不过他的信仰让他忍受下去，坚持下去，去需要他的地方。他有出色的能力，也说服妻子适应了这样的生活，却很难说服自己，不断压制自己的思念和向往，竭力地为信仰服务。
正好和《兰心大剧院》一前一后上映，都看了。两部谍战片，一部当代拍的彩色转黑白，一部当时拍的黑白修复成彩色。一部风格化小景别摇摇晃晃，一部程式化有板有眼端端正正。可前一部我觉得矫揉，后一部我却觉得真实，我被打动了。
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