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Blood of the Vampire (Original title)
Date: 1958 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Henry Cass

Synopsis: Transylvania 1880. Though Dr. Callistratus has been executed for being a vampire, he is resurrected by Carl, a mute hunchback.

Genre:
Horror
Releases
Date: 1958Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 85 mins Length: 7664 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (20)
Production Company: Tempean Films, Produced by: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman, Production Manager: Charles Permane, Production Controller: Ronald C. Liles, Assistant Director: Lucky Sacripanti, Continuity: Jane Buck, Story and Screenplay by: Jimmy Sangster, Photographed in Eastmancolor by: Monty Berman, Camera Operator: Geoffrey Seaholme, Editor: Douglas Myers, Art Director: John Elphick, Wardrobe: Muriel Dickson, Make-up: Jimmy Evans, Hairdresser: Joyce James, Music Composed and Directed by: Stanley Black, Sound Recordist: Bill Bulkley, Sound System: RCA Sound System, Made at: Twickenham Alliance Film Studios
Cast (30)
Donald Wolfit (Dr Callistratus), Barbara Shelley (Madeleine Duval), Vincent Ball (Dr John Pierre), Victor Maddern (Carl), William Devlin (Kurt Urach), Andrew Faulds (Wetzler, head guard), Bryan Coleman (Auron), John Le Mesurier (judge), Bernard Bresslaw (tall sneak thief), George Murcell (first guard), Barbara Burke (housekeeper), Hal Osmond (small sneak thief), Colin Tapley (commissioner of prisons), John Stuart (Uncle Phillipe), Henry Vidon (Professor Bernhard Meinster), Theodore Wilhelm (emaciated prisoner), Cameron Hall (drunken doctor), Otto Diamant (gravedigger), Muriel Ali (gypsy dancer), Julian Strange (second guard), Bruce Whiteman (third guard), Max Brimmell (warder), Dennis Shaw (blacksmith), Milton Reid (executioner), Richard Golding (official), Carlos Williams (first stretcher bearer), Gordon Honey (second stretcher bearer), Sylvia Casimir (woman in tavern), Yvonne Buckingham (serving wench), Suzanne Lee