Is This 1943 Bela Lugosi Movie Actually DRACULA 2?

Dracula 1931 may have made Bela Lugosi's charming count an overnight icon, but Universal bizarrely never gave his take on the character an official sequel. Over a decade later, rival studio Columbia sought to rectify that error with 1943's The Return of the Vampire. This video dissects both why Universal failed to produce Dracula 2 and how Return of the Vampire can easily be accepted as that missing sequel.