The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires – 1974

A Hammer/Shaw production presented by Michael Carreras and Run Run Shaw and distributed by Warner Brothers copyright MCMLXXlV Hammer Film Productions Limited/Shaw Productions (HK) Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate

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

Made entirely on location in Hong Kong
Colour 89 mins Panavision

Storyline

The film opens with a prologue set in Transylvania in 1804, in which a Chinese vampire, Kah, resurrects Count Dracula and begs him to help restore the power of his undead cult in his region of China. Dracula responds by taking over the body of Kah and, in his new form, he sets off to take control himself. The action then moves forward to 1904 and to Chung King, where Dracula now holds the inhabitants of a remote village in a grip of terror. Van Helsing, lecturing in China, hears of the presence of his old enemy and, with the help of a wealthy widow and a family of martial arts experts, decides to confront him again…..

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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	Johnson Tsau						2		2
Ast. Director	Erh Feng						1		1
Ast. Editor	Larry Richardson	28	23 May 1946	23.05.1946		76	3	1	4
Ast. Producer	Christopher Carreras	24	1 Jan 1950	01.01.1950		73	2	3	5
Boom Operator	Tommy Staples				1983		2		2
Camera Operator	Roy Ford	39	1 Jan 1935		10 Dec 2008	73	5		5
Composer	James Bernard	48	20 Sep 1925		12 Jul 2001	75	24	1	25
Continuity	Renee Glynne	48	3 Aug 1926		6 Apr 2022	95	38	3	41
Costumes	Liu Chi-Yu						1		1
Director	Roy Ward Baker	57	19 Dec 1916		5 Oct 2010	93	8		8
Director of Photog.	John Wilcox BSc	69	7 May 1905		31 May 1979	74	6	1	7
Directors of Photog.	Roy Ford	39	1 Jan 1935		10 Dec 2008	73	5		5
Editor	Chris Barnes	36	1 Jan 1938		5 Jun 2009	71	21	12	33
Floor Manager	Peng Cheng						1		1
Focus Puller	Keith Jones				10 May 2010		3		3
Hairdresser	Peng Yen-Lien						1		1
Make-up	Wu Hsu Ching						1		1
Martial Arts Seq.	Liu Chia-Liang	38	1 Aug 1936		25 Jun 2013	76	1		1
Martial Arts Seq.	Tang Chia	37	7 Jan 1937	07.01.1937		86	1		1
Musical Supervisor	Philip Martell	66	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
Producer	Don Houghton	44	1 Jan 1930		1 Jul 1991	61	20		20
Producer	Vee King Shaw	30	25 Jun 1944		13 Jul 2017	73	2		2
Production Manager	Chua Lam	33	1 Jan 1941	01.01.1941		82	2		2
Production Secretary	Jean Walter						2		2
Props Master	Li Wu						1		1
Screenplay	Don Houghton	44	1930		Jul 1991	61	20		20
Sound Editor	Frank Goulding				1991		4		4
Sound Maintenance	Dan Grimmel	59	25 Jun 1915		1985	69	2	1	3
Sound Recordist	Les Hammond	66	6 Jun 1908				8		8
Special Effects	Les Bowie	60	10 Nov 1913		27 Jan 1979	65	32	11	43
Unit Manager	Shen Chung						1		1
Uncredited
Ast. Director	Godfrey Ho	26	1 Jan 1948	01.01.1948		75	1	1	2
Executive Producer	Runme Shaw	73	1901		2 Mar 1985	84		1	1
Executive Producer	Run Run Shaw	66	23 Nov 1907		7 Jan 2014	106		1	1

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
British Consul	Robert Hanna						1		1
Dracula	John Forbes-Robertson	46	10 May 1928		14 May 2008	80	2		2
Hsi Ching	David Chiang	27	29 Jun 1947	29.06.1947		75	1		1
Hsi Kwei	Liu Chia Yung	30	1 Jan 1944	01.01.1944		79	2		2
Hsi San	Chen Tien Loong						1		1
Hsi Sung	Fong Ko Anh	25	12 Sep 1948		2 Mar 2016	67	1		1
Hsi Ta	James Ma						2		2
Kah	Chan Shen	34	11 Mar 1940		26 Apr 1984	44	1		1
Leung Hon	Wong Han Chan						1		1
Leyland Van Helsing	Robin Stewart	27	9 Oct 1946		22 Nov 2015	69	1		1
Mai Kwei	Shih Szu	20	24 Oct 1953	24.10.1953		69	1		1
Lawrence Van Helsing	Peter Cushing	61	26 May 1913		11 Aug 1994	81	24	1	25
Vanessa Buren	Julie Ege	30	12 Nov 1943		29 Apr 2008	64	2		2
Uncredited
Count Dracula (voice)	David de Keyser	47	22 Aug 1927		20 Feb 2021	93		3	3
Doomed Rickshaw man	Te-Chaing Teng							2	2
Hsi Hong	Hui-Ling Liu	23	17 Mar 1951	17.03.1951		71		1	1
Liang's cohort	Wai Lo							1	1
With	Chi-Chang Ho							2	2
With	Chuan Chen							1	1
With	Chun Fai Lau							1	1
With	Ha Huang							1	1
With	Hoi-Sang Lee							2	2
With	Hsia Hsu							2	2
With	Jack Long							2	2
With	Pei-Chi Huang							1	1
With	Po-Chen Yang							2	2

Production


FILMING BEGAN	22 October 1973
UK RELEASE	29 August 1974
STUDIO	Shaw Brothers Studios, Hong Kong
LOCATION	Hong Kong

Footnotes

With the popularity in the West of the Bruce Lee films and the television series “Kung Fu”, starring David Carradine, a tie-in with Hong Kong’s most successful film maker Run Run Shaw must have seemed a perfect combination to Michael Carreras. Unfortunately, however, it proved otherwise and cinemagoers, now being weaned on the more sophisticated delights of films like “The Exorcist”, stayed away in droves!

There was no way that Hammer would be able to persuade Christopher Lee to don the black cape in this one, so the role of Dracula passed to John Forbes- Robertson, who had played the mysterious Man in Black in “The Vampire Lovers” (1970).

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection