The Brides of Dracula -1960

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
Storyline
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!
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Assistant Director | John Peverall | 29 | 1 Jan 1931 | 3 Oct 2009 | 78 | 21 | 21 | ||
Associate Producer | Anthony Nelson-Keys | 48 | 13 Nov 1911 | 19 Mar 1985 | 73 | 41 | 41 | ||
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 44 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 52 | 1 | 53 | |
Continuity | Tilly Day | 57 | 1903 | 1994 | 91 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
Director | Terence Fisher | 56 | 23 Feb 1904 | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 | 31 | ||
Director of Photog. | Jack Asher BSc | 44 | 29 Mar 1916 | Apr 1991 | 75 | 14 | 14 | ||
Editor | Alfred Cox | 35 | 1925 | 2005 | 80 | 21 | 4 | 25 | |
Executive Producer | Michael Carreras | 32 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | 3 | 85 | |
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 56 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 28 | 28 | ||
Make-up Artist | Roy Ashton | 51 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Music Composer | Malcolm Williamson | 28 | 21 Nov 1931 | 2 Mar 2003 | 71 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | John Hollingsworth | 44 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | 2 | 38 | |
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 37 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 48 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | 3 | 49 | |
Production Manager | Don Weeks | 55 | 15 Nov 1904 | Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | 30 | ||
Screenplay | Edward Percy | 68 | 5 Jan 1891 | 27 May 1968 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Screenplay | Jimmy Sangster | 33 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Screenplay | Peter Bryan | 41 | 28 Sep 1919 | Sep 1972 | 52 | 22 | 22 | ||
Sound Editor | James Groom | 35 | 1 Jan 1925 | 17 May 2016 | 91 | 13 | 3 | 16 | |
Sound Recordist | Jock May | 55 | 1 Jan 1905 | 8 Jan 1991 | 86 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
Special Effects | Sid Pearson | 9 | 1 | 10 | |||||
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 41 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Molly Arbuthnot | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 2001 | 92 | 48 | 4 | 52 | ||
Uncredited | 86 | ||||||||
Second Assistant Director | Hugh Harlow | 20 | 17 Jun 1939 | 83 | 3 | 28 | 31 | ||
Props Buyer | Eric Hillier | 39 | 1920 | 1975 | 55 | 16 | 16 | ||
Property Master | Tom Money | 42 | 1917 | 1974 | 56 | 2 | 20 | 22 | |
Model Maker | Margaret Robinson | 39 | 31 Jan 1920 | 3 Oct 2016 | 96 | 4 | 4 | ||
Stunts | Peter Diamond | 30 | 10 Aug 1929 | 27 Mar 2004 | 74 | 4 | 23 | 27 | |
Lighting Technician | Steve Birtles | 46 | 12 Nov 1914 | 2003 | 88 | 13 | 14 | 27 | |
Still Photographer | Tom Edwards | 1999 | 26 | 26 | |||||
Production Secretary | Ann Skinner | 23 | 1 Feb 1937 | 86 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
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 | ||
Coachman | Michael Ripper | 47 | 27 Jan 1913 | 28 Jun 2000 | 87 | 34 | 2 | 36 | |
Cure | 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 | ||
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 | |
Landlord | Norman Pierce | 59 | 5 Sep 1900 | 22 Mar 1968 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Landlord's 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 | 3 | 6 | |
Marianne | Yvonne Monlaur | 24 | 15 Dec 1935 | 18 Apr 2017 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Severin | Harold Scott | 69 | 21 Apr 1891 | 15 Apr 1964 | 72 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Van Helsing | 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 | 1 | 4 | |
Uncredited | |||||||||
Elsa | Susan Castle | 19 | 23 Apr 1941 | 81 | 1 | 1 | |||
Foxy Girl | Stephanie Watts | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Inn Patron | Ted Carroll | 1998 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Karl | Harry Pringle | 3 Aug 1967 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Man in Tavern | Walter Henry | 39 | 24 Oct 1921 | 21 Feb 2005 | 84 | 5 | 5 | ||
Schoolgirl | Jill Haworth | 15 | 15 Aug 1945 | 3 Jan 2011 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||
Severin | Harold Scott | 69 | 21 Apr 1891 | 15 Apr 1964 | 72 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
The Man in Black | Michael Mulcaster | 48 | 3 Oct 1911 | 10 Aug 1984 | 72 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 26 Jan 1960 | |
UK RELEASE | 28 Aug 1960 | |
STUDIO | Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England | |
LOCATION | Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England | |
Oakley Court Hotel, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire, England | Chateau Meinster entrance |
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).
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection