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The Brides of Dracula [1960]
Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1960
Running Times: 85 mins 24 sec [UK -
theatrical]
Length: 7674 ft [UK]
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono
CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Company: A Hammer Film
Production / Hotspur Films Limited
Executive Producer: Michael Carreras
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Associate Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
Production Manager: Don Weeks
SCRIPT
Script: Jimmy Sangster,
Peter Bryan, Edward Percy, Anthony Hinds [uncredited]
Characters: Bram Stoker
DIRECTION
Director: Terence
Fisher
Assistant Director: John Peverall
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jack Asher
Camera Operator: Len Harris
EDITING
Supervising Editor: James Needs
Editor: Alfred Cox
MUSIC
Music Supervisor: John Hollingsworth
Music: Malcolm Williamson
SOUND
Sound Recording: Jock May
Sound Editor: James Groom
Sound: RCA Sound Recording
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up: Roy Ashton
Hair: Freda Steiger
Wardrobe Mistress: Molly Arbuthnot
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Sydney Pearson
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Bernard Robinson
Art Director: Tom Goswell
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Tilly Day
LOCATIONS
Locations: Bray Studios, Berkshire, England, UK; Black
Park, England, UK; Oakley Court, England, UK
CAST
Peter Cushing [Van Helsing]
Yvonne Monlaur [Marianne]
Freda Jackson [Greta]
David Peel [Baron Meinster]
Martita Hunt [Baroness Meinster]
Andree Melly [Gina]
Mona Washbourne [Frau Lang]
Henry Oscar [Lang]
Norman Pierce [landlord]
Vera Cook [landlord's wife]
Fred Johnson [Curé]
Miles Malleson [Dr Tobler]
Michael Mulcaster [Latour]
Victor Brooks [Hans]
Harold Scott [Severin]
Marie Deveruex (rn: Marie Devereaux) [village girl]
Michael Ripper [coachman]
Susan Castle [maid - uncredited]
Michael Mulcaster [man in black - uncredited]
Harry Pringle [Jacques - uncredited]
Harold Scott [Severin - uncredited]
SUMMARY
Naive young teacher
Marianne is on her way to a new position when she takes
pity on a young man she finds manacled to the wall in an
old castle. But she doesn't realise that the man, Baron
Meinster, has been chained up by his mother because he's
a vampire. Before long, Meinster is on the prowl,
targeting the nearby girl's school - but vampire hunter
Dr Van Helsing is on his trail...
CAPSULE REVIEW
A fabulous follow-up to Dracula
[1958] that's so well directed by Fisher and acted by
Cushing that the lack of Christopher Lee barely
registers. The film looks gorgeous [it's one of the best
looking of all Hammer films] and is acted to perfection
by one of the most extraordinary casts ever to grace one
of the company's films. If you're new to the world of
Hammer, this would be as good a place as any to start.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Rank Film Distributors
Video Distributor: Warner
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal-International
Video Distributor: Universal; MCA
Laserdisc Distributor: MCA Home Video [40606]
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: banned in 1960
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X [with unspecified cuts]
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1960
January
26: UK - Principal photography begins
March
18: UK - Principal photography ends
May
1: UK - rated X by the BBFC [for theatrical release]
12: USA - press screening in New York
July
7: UK - theatrical premiere [at the Marble Arch Odeon,
London]
August
27: UK - theatrical release
September
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release
1968
July
29: Sweden - theatrical release
1975
December
10: UK - television
broadcast [on ITV]
1982
November
6: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]
1987
August
8: UK - television broadcast [on Channel 4]
1989
June
4: UK - television broadcast [on Channel 4]
1993
April
21: USA - laserdisc release [MCA Home Video [40606]]
1996
July
1: UK - television
broadcast [on ITV]
POSTER TAGS
He feeds his unearthly desires on youth
and beauty... As he turns a girls' school into a Chamber
of Horrors!
The most evil, blood-lusting Dracula of
all!
In the privacy of a girls' school he
sought his prey - turning innocent beauty into a thing of
unspeakable horror!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dracula - blodtörstig vampyr - Swedish
title
Dracula und seine Bräute - German title
Les maitresses de Dracula - Belgian
/ French title
De minnaressen van Dracula - Belgian
title
Las novias De Dracula - Argentinian
title
Las novias De Drácula - Spanish / Portugese title
Le spose di Dracula - Italian title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Dracula [1958]
SEQUELS
Dracula Prince of
Darkness [1965]
Dracula Has Risen
from the Grave [1968]
Taste the Blood
of Dracula [1970]
Scars of Dracula [1970]
Dracula A.D. 1972 [1972]
The Satanic Rites
of Dracula [1974]
FOOTAGE INCLUDED
IN
Coming Soon [1982]
The Matrix Reloaded [2003]
Peter Cushing: A One-Way Ticket to Hollywood [1989]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Daily Cinema no.8327 [4
July 1960] p.4
review
Dark Terrors No.10 [June
1995] pp.26-43 [UK]
illustrated credits, interview, article
Dark Terrors no.11 p.47
[UK]
article
Flesh and Blood no.2
pp.4-5 [UK]
credits, review
Hollywood Reporter vol.160
no.30 [13 June 1960] p.3 [USA]
credits, review
The House That Hammer Built no.3
[June 1997] pp.119-130
illustrated credits, transcript, review
Kine Weekly no.2753 [7
July 1960] p.19 [UK]
review
Midi-Minuit Fantastique no.4/5
[January 1963] p.157 [French]
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.27
no.319 [August 1960] p.111 [UK]
credits, synopsis, review
Motion Picture Herald
vol.219 no.8 [21 May 1960] p.700 [USA]
credits, review
Necronomicon no.1 p.7
[UK]
review
Shivers no.52 p.6 [UK]
note
Shivers no.53 p.54 [UK]
review
Variety 18 May 1960 [USA]
review [by Holl]
Video Watchdog no.14 p.8
[USA]
review
BOOKS
Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror
[2nd edition] p.129
credits, review
The Hammer Story pp.176-177
credits
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and
Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.57
credits, review
Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide p.44
credits, review [by Stephen Jones]
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films
p.48
credits KEYWORDS
vampires, castles, families, bats, sequels, boarding schools, crosses
Last Updated:
6 March, 2007
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