The Brides of Dracula

The Brides of Dracula
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Directed by	Terence Fisher
Written by	Peter Bryan Edward Percy Jimmy Sangster Anthony Hinds (uncredited)
Produced by	Anthony Hinds
Starring	Peter Cushing Martita Hunt
Cinematography	Jack Asher
Music by	Malcolm Williamson
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	July 7, 1960 (UK)
Running time	85 min.
Country	UK
Language	English

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David Peel as Dracula's disciple, the Baron Meinster

The Brides of Dracula is a 1960 British Hammer Horror film directed by Terence Fisher. It stars Peter Cushing as Van Helsing; Yvonne Monlaur as Marianne Danielle; Andree Melly as her roommate, Gina; Marie Devereux; David Peel as a disciple of Count Dracula, Baron Meinster; and Martita Hunt as his indulgent mother. It is a sequel of sorts to Hammer's original Dracula (US: Horror of Dracula) (1958), although Christopher Lee did not return to the title role until Dracula, Prince of Darkness in 1965.

Shooting began for The Brides of Dracula on 16 January, 1960 at Bray Studios.

Trivia

• The film's première showing was at the Odeon, Marble Arch on 6 July, 1960.
• This is the only movie in the Hammer Horror series where the name of the original Van Helsing is mentioned — his business card and the initials on his medical bag identifies him as J. Van Helsing, suggesting that he is not Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing.
• The ending was to have originally had the vampires destroyed by a swarm of bats. This ending was rejected by Peter Cushing as being too magical for the Van Helsing character. The concept of this ending was used three years later for the climax of Hammer's Kiss of the Vampire.
• A paperback novelization of the film published in 1960 features an entire subplot about a character named Latour, who summons the mystical bats to provide the ending not used in the film.
• Van Helsing mentions Dracula only once in a brief line of dialogue.
• David Peel, who pays the youthful Baron Meinster, was in his forties when the movie was filmed.
• "My own personal involvement in a film like Brides was always 100 percent, not because I felt it to be my duty but because I felt very strongly that the pictures were mine. No doubt Terry [Fisher] thought they were his and Jimmy Sangster thought they belonged to him. And Peter C knew they were his." — Producer Anthony Hinds (Little Shoppe of Horrors #14, 1999)

Cast

• Peter Cushing (Doctor Van Helsing)
• Freda Jackson (Greta)
• Martita Hunt (Baroness Meinster)
• Yvonne Monlaur (Marianne)
• Miles Malleson (Dr. Tobler)
• David Peel (Baron Meinster)
• Mona Washbourne (Frau Lang)
• Henry Oscar (Herr Lang)
• Victor Brooks (Hans)
• Michael Ripper (Coachman)
• Andree Melly (Gina)
• Fred Johnson (Cure)
• Norman Pierce (Landlord)
• Vera Cook (Landlord's wife)
• Marie Devereux (Village girl)

Credits

• Directed by Terence Fisher
• Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, Peter Bryan, and Edward Percy
• Produced by Anthony Hinds
• Associate producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
• Executive producer: Michael Carreras
• Music by Malcolm Williamson
• Musical supervisor: John Hollingsworth
• Director of photography: Jack Asher, B.S.C.
• Production design by Bernard Robinson
• Art direction by Don Mingaye
• Supervising editor: James Needs
• Edited by Alfred Cox
• Make-up by Roy Ashton
• Special effects by Sydney Pearson

External links

• The Brides of Dracula at IMDb
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• The Brides of Dracula at Rotten Tomatoes

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