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- BFI identifier23581
- Date1958 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisTransylvania 1880. Though Dr. Callistratus has been executed for being a vampire, he is resurrected by Carl, a mute hunchback. (Synopsis)
- Work historyActor Bryan Coleman is credited as such in the opening credits but as Brian Coleman in the cast list at the end of the film. The following statement regarding the story appears after the opening credits: 'The most loathsome scourge ever to afflict this earth was that of the Vampire. Nourishing itself on warm living blood, the only known method of ending a vampire's reign of terror was to drive a wooden stake through its heart.'
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- CreditsDirected by: Henry Cass
Production Company: Tempean Films [uncredited]
Produced by: Robert S. Baker
view all - CastDonald Wolfit (Dr Callistratus)
Barbara Shelley (Madeleine Duval)
Vincent Ball (Dr John Pierre)
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Title
Blood of the Vampire (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/8353-972A-D56C-B36A-ACAA-LCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Master
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Master
35mm Negative - Acetate - Sound - Master
Positive - Acetate - Sound - Master
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Ephemera: publicity - PBS-23581
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Work - 23581 - 1958 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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