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.

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.

External links

• Blood of the Vampire at IMDb
• Blood of the Vampire at AllMovie