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The Brides of Dracula ()


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Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.

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Doctor Van Helsing
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Baroness Meinster
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Marianne Danielle
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Greta
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Baron Meinster
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Dr. Tobler
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Herr Lang
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Frau Lang
Andree Melly ...
Gina
Victor Brooks ...
Hans
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Cure
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Coachman
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Landlord
Vera Cook ...
Landlord's Wife
Marie Devereux ...
Village Girl (as Marie Deveruex)
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Inn Patron (uncredited)
Susan Castle ...
Elsa (uncredited)
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Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Walter Henry ...
Man in Tavern (uncredited)
George Mossman ...
Coach Driver (uncredited)
Michael Mulcaster ...
The Man in Black (uncredited)
Harry Pringle ...
Karl (uncredited)
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Severin (uncredited)
Stephanie Watts ...
Foxy Girl (uncredited)

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Terence Fisher ... (directed by)

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Jimmy Sangster ... (screenplay by) &
Peter Bryan ... (screenplay by) &
Edward Percy ... (screenplay by)
 
Anthony Hinds ... () (uncredited)
 
Bram Stoker ... (based on characters from a novel by) (uncredited)

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Michael Carreras ... executive producer
Anthony Hinds ... producer (produced by)
Anthony Nelson Keys ... associate producer (as Anthony Nelson-Keys)

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Malcolm Williamson

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Jack Asher ... director of photography

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Alfred Cox

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James Needs ... supervising editor

Casting By

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Dorothy Holloway ... (uncredited)

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Bernard Robinson

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Thomas Goswell ... (uncredited)

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Roy Ashton ... make-up artist
Frieda Steiger ... hair stylist (as Freda Steiger)

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Don Weeks ... production manager

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John Peverall ... assistant director
Hugh Harlow ... second assistant director (uncredited)

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Eric Hillier ... props buyer (uncredited)
Don Mingaye ... assistant art director (uncredited)
Tom Money ... property master (uncredited)
Margaret Robinson ... model maker (uncredited)

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Jim Groom ... sound editor (as James Groom)
Jock May ... sound recordist

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Sydney Pearson ... special effects

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Peter Diamond ... stunts (uncredited)

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Len Harris ... camera operator
Steve Birtles ... lighting technician (uncredited)
Tom Edwards ... still photographer (uncredited)

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Molly Arbuthnot ... wardrobe mistress

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John Hollingsworth ... musical supervisor

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Tilly Day ... continuity

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Ann Skinner ... production secretary (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr Van Helsing is already on his way. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

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Taglines He Turned Innocent Beauty Into Unspeakable Horror. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Les Maîtresses de Dracula (France)
  • Las novias de Drácula (Spain)
  • I ekdikisis tou Drakoula (Greece)
  • Dracula - blodtörstig vampyr (Sweden)
  • Draculas brud (Denmark)
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  • 85 min
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Cumulative Worldwide Gross $337,833

Did You Know?

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Trivia Actor David Peel wore lifts in his shoes to make him the same height as actor Peter Cushing in the film. Peel, according to his bio at the time, was 5 foot 10. Cushing was six feet tall. See more »
Goofs The risen village girl pushes her arm up through the earth. Subsequent shots show no damage to her coffin lid. Later, Gina makes the padlocks drop from her coffin without unlocking them, revealing the vampire's mystic power to open their sealed coffins from within. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Brides of Dracula (2021). See more »
Quotes Narrator: Transylvania, land of dark forests, dread mountains and black, unfathomed lakes. Still the home of magic and devilry as the nineteenth century draws to it's close. Count Dracula, monarch of all vampires, is dead, but his disciples live on, to spread the cult and corrupt the world.
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