Lust for a Vampire – 1971

A Hammer production presented by EMI Film Productions Limited, distributed by Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Limited and released through MGM-EMI film Distributors Limited
Copyright MCMLXX EMI Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 22676
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 System
Made at EMI/MGM Eistree Studios, England
Technicolor 91 mins
Storyline
In 1830, Richard Lestrange, a teacher of literature, takes up a post at a girls’ finishing school close to Karnstein Castle, where he develops an infatuation with one of his pupils, the enigmatically beautiful Mircalla, unaware that she is in fact the reincarnation of a notorious local vampire. Giles Barton, one of Lestrange’s fellow teachers who has an interest in the occult, suspects the truth and reveals to Miraclla his fascination to learn more the evil cult to which she belongs. His interference costs him his life and places Lestrange in mortal peril!
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Art Director | Don Mingaye | 42 | 1 Jan 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 26 | 14 | 40 | |
Ast. Director | David Bracknell | 38 | 10 Jul 1932 | Sep 1987 | 55 | 1 | 1 | ||
Characters created by | J. Sheridan Le Fanu | 156 | 28 Aug 1814 | 7 Feb 1873 | 58 | 2 | 2 | ||
Camera | Chic (Rodney) Anstiss | 39 | 1 Feb 1931 | 30 Jun 2011 | 80 | 12 | 12 | ||
Choreographer | Babbie McManus | 53 | 9 Oct 1917 | 24 Mar 1991 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Construction Manager | Bill Greene | 9 | 9 | ||||||
Continuity | Betty Harley | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Director | Jimmy Sangster | 43 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 88 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Director of Photog. | David Muir | 35 | 16 Apr 1935 | 88 | 2 | 2 | |||
Dubbing Mixer | Len Abbott | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||||
Editor | Spencer Reeve | 47 | 10 Dec 1923 | 15 Dec 1975 | 52 | 8 | 2 | 10 | |
Hairdressing Supervisor | Pearl Tipaldi | 24 Aug 1993 | 7 | 7 | |||||
Lyrics | Frank Godwin | 53 | 23 Jun 1917 | 6 Sep 2012 | 95 | 3 | 3 | ||
Make-up Supervisor | George Blackler | 58 | 7 Mar 1912 | 30 Oct 1986 | 74 | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
Music Composer | Harry Robertson | 38 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 63 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Michael Style | 38 | 1933 | 1983 | 49 | 4 | 4 | ||
Production Manager | Tom Sachs | 41 | 10 Apr 1929 | 94 | 8 | 1 | 9 | ||
Recording Director | A.W. Lumkin | 57 | 1 Feb 1913 | 25 Oct 1985 | 72 | 30 | 30 | ||
Screenplay | Tudor Gates | 41 | 2 Jan 1930 | 11 Jan 2007 | 77 | 4 | 4 | ||
Sound Editor | Terry Poulton | 41 | 1930 | 1993 | 63 | 16 | 1 | 17 | |
Sound Recordist | Ron Barron | 47 | 9 Dec 1923 | 15 Dec 1973 | 50 | 4 | 4 | ||
Strange Love sung by | Tracy | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Wardrobe Mistress | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Ast. Director | Lindsey C. Vickers | 31 | 1940 | 83 | 7 | 7 | |||
Boom Operator | John Hall | 27 | 22 Aug 1943 | 16 Feb 2000 | 56 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Clapper Loader | Peter Carmody | 27 | 1944 | 79 | 6 | 6 | |||
Dubbing Mixer | Len Shilton | 60 | 30 Apr 1910 | Jun 1985 | 75 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Painter | Michael Finlay | 22 | 23 Apr 1948 | 75 | 19 | 19 | |||
Props | Wally Hockings | 40 | 1931 | 1992 | 60 | 2 | 2 | ||
Runner | Brian Reynolds | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Stand-in: Yutte Stensgaard | Tina Simmons | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Third Ast. Director | Terry Pearce | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Unit Publicist | Geoff Freeman | 36 | 19 Jul 1934 | 27 Aug 2006 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Wardrobe Ast. | Betty Rogers | 1 | 1 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Amanda | Judy Matheson | 26 | 1 Jan 1945 | 78 | 2 | 2 | |||
Biggs | Jonathan Cecil | 31 | 22 Feb 1939 | 22 Sep 2011 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bishop | Jack Melford | 71 | 5 Sep 1899 | 22 Oct 1972 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Coachman | Christopher Cunningham | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Count Karnstein | Mike Raven | 46 | 15 Nov 1924 | 24 Apr 1997 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Countess | Barbara Jefford | 40 | 26 Jul 1930 | 12 Sep 2020 | 90 | 2 | 2 | ||
First Villager | Nick Brimble | 26 | 22 Jul 1944 | 78 | 1 | 1 | |||
Giles Barton | Ralph Bates | 30 | 12 Feb 1940 | 27 Mar 1991 | 51 | 5 | 5 | ||
Hans | Christopher Neame | 23 | 12 Sep 1947 | 75 | 2 | 2 | |||
Inspector Heinrich | Harvey Hall | 39 | 27 Jun 1931 | 11 Apr 1997 | 65 | 3 | 3 | ||
Isabel | Caryl Little | 27 | 1 Jan 1944 | 79 | 1 | 1 | |||
Janet | Suzanna Leigh | 25 | 26 Jul 1945 | 11 Dec 2017 | 72 | 3 | 3 | ||
Landlord | Michael Brennan | 58 | 25 Sep 1912 | 29 Jun 1982 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mircalla | Yutte Stensgaard | 24 | 14 May 1946 | 76 | 1 | 1 | |||
Miss Simpson | Helen Christie | 56 | 22 Oct 1914 | 17 Aug 1995 | 80 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Peasant Girl | Kirsten Lindholm | 27 | 1 Sep 1943 | 79 | 4 | 4 | |||
Pelley | David Healey | 41 | 15 May 1929 | 25 Oct 1995 | 66 | 3 | 3 | ||
Producer | Harry Fine | 58 | 20 Feb 1912 | May 1997 | 85 | 6 | 6 | ||
Professor Hertz | Erik Chitty | 63 | 8 Jul 1907 | 22 Jul 1977 | 70 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Richard | Michael Johnson | 31 | 5 Jun 1939 | 24 Feb 2001 | 61 | 1 | 1 | ||
Schoolgirl | Vivienne Chandler | 23 | 6 Nov 1947 | 6 Jun 2013 | 65 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Schoolgirl | Jackie Leapman | 24 | 1 Jan 1947 | 76 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Schoolgirl | Melita Clarke | 22 | 1 Jan 1949 | 74 | 1 | 1 | |||
Schoolgirl | Sue Longhurst | 27 | 27 Jan 1943 | 80 | 1 | 1 | |||
Schoolgirl | Melinda Churcher | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Schoolgirl | Patricia Warner | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Second Villager | David Richardson | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sophie | Erica Beale | 24 | 13 Jul 1946 | 76 | 1 | 1 | |||
Susan | Pippa Steel | 22 | 15 Apr 1948 | 29 May 1992 | 44 | 2 | 2 | ||
Trudi | Luan Peters | 24 | 18 Jun 1946 | 19 Dec 2017 | 71 | 2 | 2 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Count Karnstein (voice) | Valentine Dyall | 63 | 7 May 1907 | 24 Jun 1985 | 78 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Schoolgirl | Christine Smith | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Villager | Fred Wood | 49 | 26 Oct 1921 | 25 Jan 2003 | 81 | 19 | 19 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 6 July 1970 | |
UK RELEASE | 17 Jan 1971 | |
STUDIO | Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire, England | |
LOCATION | Hunton Park, Essex Lane, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, England | Exteriors Girls Finishing School |
Footnotes
This film was hit in the pre-production stage by the loss of its original star and director. Peter Cushing, who was to have played the part taken by Ralph Bates, had to pull out because of his wife’s illness; and Jimmy Sangster took over from Terence Fisher, who was incapacitated with a broken leg.
Danish actress Yutte Stensgaard had appeared in Amicus’s “Scream and Scream Again” (1969). Despite her announced ambition to win an Oscar, it was not to be and she ended up doing a short stint as a hostess on the ATV game show “The Golden Shot”.
Disc Jockey Mike Raven tried the occasional stab at acting. His other roles include the low-budget “Crucible of Terror” (1971). In “Lust for a Vampire”, however, his voice was dubbed by actor Valentine Dyall.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection