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House of Dracula (1945)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1945
Running Times: 67 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Executive Producer: Joseph Gershenson
Producer: Paul Malvern
SCRIPT
Script: Edward T. Lowe
DIRECTION
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Assistant Director: Ralph Slosser
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: George Robinson
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Russell Schoengarth
MUSIC
Music: William Lava, Paul Dessau, Charles Henderson, Charles Previn,
Hans J. Salter, Paul Sawtell, Frank Skinner (all uncredited)
Musical Director: Edgar Fairchild
SOUND
Sound Director: Bernard B. Brown
Sound Technician: Jess Moulin
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jack P. Pierce
Hair: Carmen Dirigo
Gown Supervisor: Vera West
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Director: John P. Fulton
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors: John B. Goodman, Martin Obzina
Set Decorators: Russell A. Gausman, Arthur D. Leddy
CAST
Lon Chaney Jr (Lawrence Talbot)
John Carradine (Count Dracula / Baron Latos)
Martha O'Driscoll (Miliza Morrelle)
Lionel Atwill (Inspector Holtz)
Onslow Stevens (Dr Edelman)
Jane Adams (Nina)
Ludwig Stössel (Siegfried)
Glenn Strange (Frankenstein's monster)
Skelton Knaggs (Steinmuhl)
PLOT SUMMARY
Dracula seeks the help of Dr Edelman's in curing his vampirism, but
in fact is really after Edelman's beautiful assistant who he vampirises.
Shortly afterwards, Larry Talbot arrives looking for a cure for his
lycanthropy. When Edelman's procedures fail, Talbot tries to commit
suicide but instead finds Frankenstein's Monster in a network of caves.
Before long, Dracula, the Wolf Man and the monster are slugging it out.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The last of the serious Universal horrors before Abbott and Costello
got their hands on the classic monsters and it's not the best of swan
songs. None of it makes much sense as the now rather tatty looking monsters
are crammed into a pointless plot that mainly consists of contrived
situations and dull dialogue. A sad end for the once great horror icons.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Video Distributors: MCA/Universal Home Video
Laserdisc Distributors: MCA/Universal Home Video
Theatrical Distributors: Universal Pictures; Realart Pictures Inc
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: banned in 1947
USA
Rating: unrated
AWARDS
1946
Hugo Awards, USA
Best Dramatic Presentation - nominated
TIMELINE
1945
December
7: USA – theatrical release
1948
March
31: France – theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
The Super-Shock Sensation Of All Time... All Together... All Terrific...
Bringing All NEW Thrills!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
La casa degli orrori - Italian title
La maison de Dracula - French title
La mansión de Drácula - Spanish title
The Wolf Man's Cure
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Son of Dracula (1943)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
SEQUEL
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Years of Horror (1996)
Coming Soon (1982)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (1999)
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of The Wolf Man (1999)
Wolfman Chronicles (1991)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
The Dark Side no.63 p.25 (UK)
review
Scarlet Street no.8 p.71 (USA)
review
BOOKS
Classic Movie Monsters by Donald F. Glut pp.22-26
article
The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide by Stephen Jones
p.26
credits, review
John Carradine: The Films (Jefferson, NC: McFarland
and Co (1999) ISBN: 0786406070)
review (by Tom Weaver)
Universal Horrors (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co
(1990) ISBN: 0899503691)
article (by Michael Brunas, John Brunas, Tom Weaver)
KEYWORDS
castles, caves, doctors, dracula, frankenstein's monster, hunchbacks,
mad doctors, monsters, nurses, sequels, transformations, vampires, vampire
bats, werewolves
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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