Factual error: Dracula refers to the town of Whitby as "so close to London" when in fact it is 243 miles away.
Dracula (1931)
1 factual error - chronological order
Directed by: Tod Browning
Starring: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Helen Chandler
Revealing mistake: In several of the sanatorium scenes, you can see large pieces of cardboard attached to the lamps to affect the lighting.
Renfield: No, no, master. I wasn't going to say anything, I told them nothing. I am loyal to you master.
Trivia: Producer Carl Laemmle's daughter, Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle called Carla is the young woman reading about the mountains and castles in the coach at the very beginning of the movie. She is thrown into someone's lap by the violent movement of the coach because the driver was in such a hurry to reach the inn by sundown. She had small parts in a dozen or so other movies, the last one filmed in 2014 at age 104.
Answer: So he could seduce Mina slowly with his hypnotic eyes, Dr. Steward would have been in the way.