Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1935
Running Times: 60m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

Tod Browning's production

PRODUCTION
Copyright: MCMXXXV in U.S.A. by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents
Controlled by: Loew's Incorporated
Producer: E.J. Mannix [uncredited]

SCRIPT
Screen Play by: Guy Endore and Bernard Schubert
Adaptation: Guy Endore [uncredited]
Additional Dialogue: H.S. Kraft, Samuel Ornitz, John L. Balderston [uncredited]
Story: Tod Browning [uncredited]
Original Fictionalisation: Edwin V. Burkholder [uncredited]

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Harry Sharrock [uncredited]

PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographed by: James Wong Howe

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Ben Lewis

MUSIC
Music: Herbert Stothart (uncredited), Edward Ward (uncredited)

SOUND
Recording Director: Douglas Shearer
Western Electric Sound System

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Gowns by: Adrian
Make Up: Jack Dawn [uncredited]

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Cedric Gibbons
Associates: Harry Oliver, Edwin B. Willis

CAST

Lionel Barrymore (Professor Zelen)

with
Elizabeth Allan (Irene Borotyn)
Bela Lugosi (Count Mora)
Lionel Atwill (Police Inspector Neumann)
Jean Hersholt (Baron Otto von Zinden)

Henry Wadsworth (Fedor Vincenté)
Donald Meek (Dr J. Doskil)
Jessie Ralph (Midwife)
Ivan Simpson (Jan the butler)
Franklyn Ardell (Barney the chauffeur)
Leila Bennett (Maria)
June Gittelson (Annie the maid)
Carroll Borland (Luna Mora)
Holmes Herbert (Sir Karell Borotyn)
Michael Visaroff (Innkeeper)

UNCREDITED CAST

Guy Bellis (Ronnie, the English man at the inn)
James Bradbury Jr (actor)
Egon Brecher (coroner)
Louise Emmons (gypsy hag)
Rosemary Glosz (innkeeper's wife)
Robert Greig (fat man)
Baron Hesse (bus driver)
Eily Malyon (sick woman)
Torben Meyer (card player)
Christian Rub (deaf man)
Zeffie Tilbury (grandmother)
Clare Verdera (English woman)

Count Mora is greatly feared in his native land, the villagers surrounding his castel believing him to be a vampire. When he appears to kill Sir Karell Borotyn and to turn his attentions to his daughter, Irena, vampire expert and hypnotist Professor Zelen steps in to protect her. But is everything exactly as it seems, and indeed are any of these people who they really claim to be...?

USA
Theatrical Distributor: MGM
Video Distributor: MGM

USA
Rating: G

1986
January
18: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

1998
September
5: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

Vampires of Prague - early title
Das Zeichen des Vampirs - German title

REMAKE OF
London After Midnight (1927)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Fade to Black (1980)

PERIODICALS

Monsters From the Vault no.2 p.7 (USA)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.2 no.16 (May 1935) p.55 (UK)

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.46 no.542 (March 1979) p.59 (UK)

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.46 no.543 (April 1979) p.256 (UK)

Filmfax no.46 (August / September 1994) p.12 (UK)
illustrated review

Filmfax no.72 (April / May 1999) p.43 (UK)
illustrated article

BOOKS

The Aurum Encyclopedia of Film: Horror (2nd edition) p.63
review, credits

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.232
review, credits

The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide p.19
credits, review

Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.290
credits

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

actors, hynoptism, vampires

Last Updated: 7 October, 2009