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The Brides of Dracula (Original title)
Dates: 1960 (Copyright), 07 July 1960 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Terence Fisher

Synopsis: Horror. Marianne, a Parisian schoolteacher, meets a strange young man when she is forced to spend the night at the castle of Baroness Meinster. The young man is the Baroness' son, who is being kept prisoner. When Marianne helps him escape at his request, she discovers that he is a vampire.

Genre:
Horror

Subject:
Vampires
Credits (31)
©: Hotspur Films, Production Company: Hammer Film Productions, Executive Producer: Michael Carreras, Produced by: Anthony Hinds, Associate Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys, Production Manager: Don Weeks, Assistant Director (1st): John Peverall, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Hugh Harlow, Continuity: Tilly Day, [Casting Director]: Dorothy Holloway, Screenplay by: Jimmy Sangster, Screenplay by: Peter Bryan, Edward Percy, Director of Photography: Jack Asher, Camera Operator: Len Harris, [Stills Photographer]: Tom Edwards, Special Effects: Sydney Pearson, Supervising Editor: James Needs, Editor: Alfred Cox, Production Designer: Bernard Robinson, Art Director: Thomas Goswell, Wardrobe Mistress: Molly Arbuthnot, Make-up Artist: Roy Ashton, Hair Stylist: Freda Steiger, Music Composed by: Malcolm Williamson, Musical Supervisor: John Hollingsworth, Sound Recordist: Jock May, Logo [Sound System]: RCA Sound System, Sound Editor: James Groom, Produced at: Bray Film Studios
Cast (17)
Peter Cushing (Dr Van Helsing), Freda Jackson (Greta), Martita Hunt (Baroness Meinster), Yvonne Monlaur (Marianne Danielle), Miles Malleson (Dr Tobler), Henry Oscar (Mr Lang), David Peel (Baron Meinster), Victor Brooks (Hans), Mona Washbourne (Frau Lang), Michael Ripper (coachman), Andrée Melly (Gina), Fred Johnson (Cure), Norman Pierce (landlord), Vera Cook (landlord's wife), Marie Deveruex (village girl), Harold Scott ([Séverin]), Michael Mulcaster ([Latour])