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 Credits
Art Director	Don Mingaye	42	1929		8 Nov 2017	88	25
Assistant Director	David Bracknell	38	10 Jul 1932		1 Sep 1987	55	1
Based on characters created by	J. Sheridan Le Fanu	156	28 Aug 1814		7 Feb 1873	58	2
Camera	Chic (Rodney) Anstiss	39	1 Feb 1931		30 Jun 2011	80	12
Choreographer	Babbie McManus	53	9 Oct 1917		24 Mar 1991	73	1
Construction Manager	Bill Greene						9
Continuity	Betty Harley						6
Directed by	Jimmy Sangster	43	2 Dec 1927		19 Aug 2011	83	65
Director of Photography	David Muir	35	16 Apr 1935	16.04.1935		87	2
Dubbing Mixer	Len Abbott						4
Editor	Spencer Reeve	47	10 Dec 1923		15 Dec 1975	52	8
Hairdressing Supervisor	Pearl Tipaldi				24 Aug 1993		7
Lyrics	Frank Godwin	53	23 Jun 1917		6 Sep 2012	95	3
Make-up Supervisor	George Blackler	58	7 Mar 1912		1 Oct 1986	74	7
Music Composed by	Harry Robinson	38	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26
Musical Supervisor	Philip Martell	63	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	103
Produced by	Harry Fine	58	20 Feb 1912		1 May 1997	85	6
Produced by	Michael Style	38	1 Jan 1933		1 Jan 1983	50	4
Production Manager	Tom Sachs	41	10 Apr 1929		Living	92	8
Recording Director	A.W. Lumkin	57	2 Feb 1913		25 Oct 1985	72	30
Screenplay by	Tudor Gates	40	2 Jan 1930		11 Jan 2007	77	4
Sound Editor	Terry Poulton	41	1930		1993	63	16
Sound Recordist	Ron Barron	47	10 Dec 1923		15 Dec 1973	50	4
Strange Love sung by	Tracy						1
Wardrobe Mistress	Laura Nightingale						35

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Appearances
Amanda	Judy Matheson	26	1945	01.01.1945		77	2
Biggs	Jonathan Cecil	31	22 Feb 1939		22 Sep 2011	72	1
Bishop	Jack Melford	71	5 Sep 1899		22 Oct 1972	73	1
Coachman	Christopher Cunningham						3
Count Karnstein	Mike Raven	46	15 Nov 1924		24 Apr 1997	72	1
Countess	Barbara Jefford	40	26 Jul 1930		12 Sep 2020	90	2
First Villager	Nick Brimble	26	22 Jul 1944	22.07.1944		77	1
Giles Barton	Ralph Bates	30	12 Feb 1940		27 Mar 1991	51	5
Hans	Christopher Neame	23	12 Sep 1947	12.09.1947		74	2
Inspector Heinrich	Harvey Hall	39	27 Jun 1931		11 Apr 1997	65	3
Isabel	Caryl Little	27	1944	01.01.1944		78	1
Janet	Suzanna Leigh	25	26 Jul 1945		11 Dec 2017	72	3
Landlord	Michael Brennan	58	25 Sep 1912		29 Jun 1982	70	1
Mircalla	Yutte Stensgaard	25	14 May 1946	14.05.1946		75	1
Miss Simpson	Helen Christie	67	22 Oct 1914		17 Aug 1995	80	1
Peasant Girl	Kirsten Lindholm	27	1 Sep 1943	01.09.1943		78	4
Pelley	David Healey	41	15 May 1929		25 Oct 1995	66	3
Professor Hertz	Erik Chitty	63	8 Jul 1907		22 Jul 1977	70	1
Richard	Michael Johnson	31	5 Jun 1939		24 Feb 2001	61	1
Schoolgirl	Jackie Leapman	24	1947	01.01.1947		75	1
Schoolgirl	Melinda Churcher						1
Schoolgirl	Melita Clarke	22	1949	01.01.1949		73	1
Schoolgirl	Patricia Warner						1
Schoolgirl	Sue Longhurst	28	27 Jan 1943	27.01.1943		79	1
Schoolgirl	Vivienne Chandler	23	6 Nov 1947		6 Jun 2013	65	1
Second Villager	David Richardson						1
Sophie	Erica Beale	24	13 Jul 1946	13.07.1946		75	1
Susan	Pippa Steel	22	15 Apr 1948		29 May 1992	44	2
Trudi	Luan Peters	24	18 Jun 1946		19 Dec 2017	71	2

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