Opening narration:- “Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black, unfathomed lakes, still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to its close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires, is dead. But his disciples live on, to spread the cult and corrupt the world.” A young woman on her way to take up a teaching post is offered the hospitality of the sombre Baroness Meinster in her remote castle. But the Baroness has a son, a young man she keeps shackled in his rooms – a young man with a terrifying secret!
Production Details
A Hammer film production released by Universal Pictures Copyright MCMLX by Hotspur films Ltd. – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 19563
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Technicolor 81 mins
Filming Began: 26th January 1960
UK Release: 28th August 1960
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Locations:
Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire
Oakley Court Hotel, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire – Chateau Meinster entrance
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Art Director | Thomas Goswell | 69 | 28 Mar 1891 | 1982 | 90 | 1 | 6 | 7 | |
Assistant Art Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/don-mingaye/# | 31 | 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 28 | 15 | 43 | |
Assistant Director | John Peverall | 29 | 1931 | 3 Oct 2009 | 78 | 21 | 21 | ||
Associate Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-nelson-keys/# | 48 | 13 Nov 1911 | 19 Mar 1985 | 73 | 41 | 41 | ||
Camera Operator | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/len-harris/# | 44 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 53 | 2 | 55 | |
Casting | Dorothy Holloway | 62 | 7 Mar 1898 | 1972 | 73 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
Continuity | Tilly Day | 57 | 1903 | 1994 | 91 | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/terence-fisher/# | 56 | 23 Feb 1904 | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 | 31 | ||
Director of Photography | Jack Asher BSc | 44 | 29 Mar 1916 | Apr 1991 | 75 | 13 | 13 | ||
Editor | Alfred Cox | 35 | 1925 | 2005 | 80 | 21 | 4 | 25 | |
Executive Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 32 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 84 | 8 | 92 | |
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 56 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 28 | 28 | ||
Lighting Technician | Steve Birtles | 45 | 12 Nov 1914 | 2003 | 88 | 14 | 15 | 29 | |
Make-up Artist | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-ashton/# | 51 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Model Maker | Margaret Robinson | 40 | 31 Jan 1920 | 3 Oct 2016 | 96 | 4 | 4 | ||
Music Composer | Malcolm Williamson | 28 | 21 Nov 1931 | 2 Mar 2003 | 71 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-hollingsworth/# | 44 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 37 | 3 | 40 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/# | 37 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 88 | 1 | 89 | |
Production Designer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/bernard-robinson/# | 48 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 45 | 4 | 49 | |
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/don-weeks/# | 55 | 15 Nov 1904 | Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | 30 | ||
Production Secretary | Ann Skinner | 23 | 1 Feb 1937 | 01.02.1937 | 87 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
Property Master | Tom Money | 43 | 1917 | 1974 | 57 | 2 | 21 | 23 | |
Props Buyer | Eric Hillier | 40 | 1920 | 1975 | 55 | 17 | 17 | ||
Screenplay | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/jimmy-sangster/# | 32 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Screenplay | Edward Percy | 69 | 5 Jan 1891 | 27 May 1968 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Screenplay | Peter Bryan | 40 | 28 Sep 1919 | Sep 1972 | 52 | 22 | 22 | ||
Second Assistant Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/hugh-harlow/# | 21 | 17 Jun 1939 | 17.06.1939 | 85 | 5 | 33 | 38 | |
Sound Editor | James Groom | 35 | 1925 | 17 May 2016 | 91 | 13 | 2 | 15 | |
Sound Recordist | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/jock-may/# | 55 | 1905 | 8 Jan 1991 | 86 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
Special Effects | Sid Pearson | 9 | 1 | 10 | |||||
Still Photographer | Tom Edwards | 1999 | 29 | 29 | |||||
Stunts | Peter Diamond | 31 | 10 Aug 1929 | 27 Mar 2004 | 74 | 4 | 25 | 29 | |
Supervising Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-needs/# | 40 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/molly-arbuthnot/# | 51 | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 2001 | 92 | 48 | 5 | 53 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Baron Meinster | David Peel | 40 | 19 Jun 1920 | 4 Sep 1981 | 61 | 1 | 1 | ||
Baroness Meinster | Martita Hunt | 60 | 30 Jan 1900 | 13 Jun 1969 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
Coach Driver | George Mossman | 51 | 9 Sep 1908 | Sep 1993 | 84 | 4 | 4 | ||
Coachman | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-ripper/# | 47 | 27 Jan 1913 | 28 Jun 2000 | 87 | 34 | 2 | 36 | |
Cure | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/fred-johnson/# | 61 | 6 Aug 1899 | 4 Dec 1971 | 72 | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
Dr Tobler | Miles Malleson | 72 | 25 May 1888 | 15 Mar 1969 | 80 | 4 | 4 | ||
Elsa | Susan Castle | 19 | 23 Apr 1941 | 23.04.1941 | 83 | 1 | 1 | ||
Foxy Girl | Stephanie Watts | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Frau Lang | Mona Washbourne | 56 | 27 Nov 1903 | 15 Nov 1988 | 84 | 2 | 2 | ||
Gina | Andree Melly | 27 | 15 Sep 1932 | 31 Jan 2020 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Greta | Freda Jackson | 52 | 29 Dec 1907 | 20 Oct 1990 | 82 | 2 | 2 | ||
Hans | Victor Brooks | 41 | 11 Nov 1918 | 19 Jan 2000 | 81 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Inn Patron | Ted Carroll | 1998 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Karl | Harry Pringle | 3 Aug 1967 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Landlord | Norman Pierce | 59 | 5 Sep 1900 | 22 Mar 1968 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Landlords Wife | Vera Cook | 48 | 19 Jun 1912 | 1 Jun 1996 | 83 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Lang | Henry Oscar | 69 | 14 Jul 1891 | 28 Dec 1969 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Latour | Michael Mulcaster | 48 | 3 Oct 1911 | 10 Aug 1984 | 72 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Man in Tavern | Walter Henry | 38 | 24 Oct 1921 | 21 Feb 2005 | 83 | 5 | 5 | ||
Marianne | Yvonne Monlaur | 24 | 15 Dec 1935 | 18 Apr 2017 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Schoolgirl | Jill Haworth | 15 | 15 Aug 1945 | 3 Jan 2011 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||
Servant at inn | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/paddy-smith/# | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Severin | Harold Scott | 69 | 21 Apr 1891 | 15 Apr 1964 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Van Helsing | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/peter-cushing/# | 47 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Village Girl | Marie Devereux | 19 | 27 Nov 1940 | 30 Dec 2019 | 79 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
Regal actress Martita Hunt is probably best remembered for playing the part of Miss Havisham in David Lean’s classic 1946 film of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.
Freda Jackson’s other excursions into fantasy include roles as Boris Karloff’s radioactively dissolving wife in Monster of Terror (1965), as blind hag Tia Zorina in The Valley of Gwangi (1969) and as one of the Stygian witches in Clash of the Titans (1981).