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	17.06.1939		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	1.02.1937		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	23.04.1941		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