Blood of the Vampire

Blood of the Vampire

Directed by	Henry Cass
Produced by	Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman
Written by	Jimmy Sangster
Starring	Donald Wolfit Barbara Shelley Vincent Ball Victor Maddern
Production company	Artistes Alliance
Distributed by	Universal International
Release dates	1958
Running time	87 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British horror film directed by Henry Cass from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster.^[1]

Plot

Transylvania in the 19th century. A young doctor John Pierre (Vincent Ball) and his fiancee Madeleine Duval (Barbara Shelley) are terrorized by Dr. Callistratus (Donald Wolfit) who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his mute and hunchback assistant Carl (Victor Maddern), who is now fallen in love with Madeleine, the 'anemic' mad scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.

Cast

Donald Wolfit as Doctor Callistratus
Barbara Shelley as Madeleine Duval
Vincent Ball as Dr. John Pierre
Victor Maddern as Carl
William Devlin as Kurt Urach
Andrew Faulds as Chief Guard Wetzler
John Le Mesurier as Judge
Bryan Coleman as Monsieur Auron
Max Brimmell as Warder
Cameron Hall as Drunken Doctor
George Murcell as First Guard
Julian Strange as Second Guard
Bruce Wightman as Third Guard
Barbara Burke as Housekeeper
Bernard Bresslaw as Tall Sneak Thief
Hal Osmond as Small Sneak Thief
Henri Vidon as Professor Bernhardt Meinster
John Stuart as Uncle Phillippe
Colin Tapley as Commissioner of Prisons
Denis Shaw as Blacksmith
Pat Phoenix as Woman (uncredited)

Production

The film was inspired by the success of The Curse of Frankenstein and The Horror of Dracula. The producers hired Jimmy Sangster, writer of both those movies, to do the screenplay. Shooting took four weeks.^[2]

References

↑ "Blood of the Vampire (1958)". Rotten tomatoes. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
↑ John Hamilton, The British Independent Horror Film 1951-70 Hemlock Books 2013 p 52-56

External links

Blood of the Vampire at the Internet Movie Database
Blood of the Vampire at AllMovie

Films by Jimmy Sangster

As writer	A Man on the Beach (1955) X the Unknown (1956) The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) Dracula (1958) The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) Intent to Kill (1958) The Snorkel (1958) Blood of the Vampire (1958) The Trollenberg Terror (1958) Jack the Ripper (1959) The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) The Mummy (1959) The Brides of Dracula (1960) The Criminal (1960) The Siege of Sidney Street (1960) The Hellfire Club (1961) The Terror of the Tongs (1961) Taste of Fear (1961, also producer) The Pirates of Blood River (1962) Paranoiac (1963, also producer) The Maniac (1963, also producer) Nightmare (1964, also producer) The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964) Hysteria (1965) The Nanny (1965, also producer) Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) Deadlier Than the Male (1967) The Anniversary (1968, also producer) Foreign Exchange (1970, also producer) Crescendo (1970) A Taste of Evil (1971) Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972) Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973) The Legacy (1978) Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979, also producer) No Place to Hide (1981) The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)

As director	The Horror of Frankenstein (1970, also writer) Lust for a Vampire (1971) Fear in the Night (1972, also writer)

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