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
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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 | Chick Anstiss | 39 | 1 Feb 1931 | 30 Jun 2011 | 80 | 7 |
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 | Living | 85 | 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 | Living | 76 | 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 | Living | 76 | 1 |
Giles Barton | Ralph Bates | 30 | 12 Feb 1940 | 27 Mar 1991 | 51 | 5 |
Hans | Christopher Neame | 23 | 12 Sep 1947 | Living | 73 | 2 |
Inspector Heinrich | Harvey Hall | 39 | 27 Jun 1931 | 11 Apr 1997 | 65 | 3 |
Isabel | Caryl Little | 27 | 1944 | Living | 77 | 1 |
Janet | Suzanna Leigh | 25 | 26 Jul 1945 | 11 Dec 2017 | 72 | 3 |
Landlord | Michael Brennan | 58 | 25 Sep 1912 | 29 Sep 1982 | 70 | 1 |
Mircalla | Yutte Stensgaard | 44 | 14 May 1946 | Living | 74 | 1 |
Miss Simpson | Helen Christie | 1 | ||||
Peasant Girl | Kirsten Lindholm | 27 | 1 Sep 1943 | Living | 77 | 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 Reapman | 24 | 1947 | Living | 74 | 1 |
Schoolgirl | Melinda Churcher | 1 | ||||
Schoolgirl | Melita Clarke | 22 | 1949 | Living | 72 | 1 |
Schoolgirl | Patricia Warner | 1 | ||||
Schoolgirl | Sue Longhurst | 28 | 27 Jan 1943 | Living | 78 | 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 | Living | 74 | 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 |
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