The Brides of Dracula
The Brides of Dracula VHS cover
Directed by	Terence Fisher
Produced by	Anthony Hinds
Written by	Peter Bryan Edward Percy Jimmy Sangster Anthony Hinds (uncredited)
Starring	Peter Cushing Martita Hunt Yvonne Monlar David Peel
Music by	Malcolm Williamson
Cinematography	Jack Asher
Editing by	Alfred Cox
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	July 7, 1960 (UK)
Running time	85 min.
Country	UK
Language	English
Preceded by	Dracula (1958 film)
Followed by	Dracula: Prince of Darkness
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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. See also: 1959 in film 1960 1961 in film 1950s in film 1960s in film years in film film // Events April 20 - for the first time since coming home from military service in Germany, Elvis Presley returns to Hollywood, California to film G.I. Blues August 10 - Filming of West... Hammer horror refers to a series of gothic horror films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s by the British film production company Hammer Film Productions Ltd. ... Movie director who worked for Hammer Films. ... Peter Cushing OBE Cushing (left) in the television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the winter of 1954 on BBC Television. ... Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character in Bram Stokers 1897 novel, Dracula. ... David Peel (1920-1981) was a British actor. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the name of its primary character, the vampire Count Dracula. ... Martita Hunt (January 30 1900 - June 13 1969) was a theatre and film actress. ... Dracula is a 1958 British horror film, and the first of a series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922 in Belgravia, London) is a legendary and prolific English actor known for his versatility, his professional longevity, and his distinctive basso delivery. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...

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Plot synopsis

Marianne Danielle, a young schoolteacher en route to take up a position in Transylvania, is abandoned in a village by her coach driver. At the local inn, she ignores the warnings of the locals and accepts the offer of Baroness Meinster to spend the night at her castle. Map of Romania with Transylvania in yellow Transylvania (Romanian: or Transilvania; Hungarian: ; German: ; Serbian: / Transilvanija or Ердељ / Erdelj) is a historical region in central and western Romania. ... Baroness could refer to: Female equivalent of Baron. ... Balmoral Castle, Scotland Castle has a history of scholarly debate surrounding its exact meaning. ...

At the castle, she sees the Baroness's handsome son, whom she is told is insane and kept confined (his leg is chained). When she sneaks to meet him, he says his mother usurped his rightful lands and pleads with her to helm. She agrees, and steals the key to his chain from the Baroness. Upon discovery of this, the Baroness is horrified. Yet when her son appears, she obeys him and goes into the next room. Later, the servant Greta (who has taken care of the Baron since he was a baby) goes into hysterics. She forces Marianne to look at the Baroness' body, and its twin puncture marks in the throat. Marianne flees into the night.

Peter Cushing as Van Helsing and Yvonne Monlaur as the shoolteacher Marianne

She is found, exhausted, by Dr. Van Helsing. She doesn't remember all that has happened, nor is she familiar when asked with the words "undead" or "vampirism." He escorts her to the school where she's to be employed. Image File history File links Brides_of_dracula_cap1. ... Image File history File links Brides_of_dracula_cap1. ...

When Van Helsing reaches the village inn, he finds there is a funeral in progress. A young girl found dead in the woods, with wounds upon her throat. He contacts Father Stepnik, who turns out to have asked the expert on vampirism to come here. Father Stepnik has suspicions about the castle and the Baroness. That night, Baron Meinster's first victim rises from her grave, witnessed by Van Helsing and the Father. Van Helsing goes to the castle, discovering the Baroness has now risen as a vampire, full of self-loathing and guilt. But as the sun rises, he dispatches her with a wooden stake. Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 This article deals with vampires in folklore and legends. ...

Andree Melly as Gina

The Baron, meanwhile, pays a visit on Marianne and asks her to marry him. She accepts, much to the good natured envy of her roommate Gina. Once Gina is alone, Baron Meinster comes to her and bites her. When Van Helsing comes for a visit the next day, he finds the school in an small uproar. Gina is dead. Van Helsing gives strict instructions about the body--to be kept away from the shool and with people watching it until he returns. As it happens, Marianne is alone with the coffin at sunset. The locks on the coffin fall off, and Gina rises. She talks soothingly to a terrified Marianne, asking forgivenss for "Letting him love me," and asking to kiss her. She says they can all be together. He is at the old mill now. Image File history File links Brides_of_dracula_cap2. ... Image File history File links Brides_of_dracula_cap2. ...

Van Helsing loses his fight with Baron Meinster

But then Van Helsing enters, with a cross, just in time. Marianne doesn't want to believe the Baron is a vampire, but she does tell Van Helsing what he needs to know. The vampire hunter goes to the old mill and is confronted by both of Meinster's "Brides" as well as Gerta--who isn't affected by the cross. Gerta is killed in a fall, but the cross is now out of Van Helsing's reach when the Baron arrives. In the fight that follows, the Baron bites Van Helsing and leaves him. Image File history File links Brides_of_dracula_cap3. ... Image File history File links Brides_of_dracula_cap3. ... A vampire hunter or vampire slayer is someone who specializes in finding and destroying vampires and sometimes other creatures of dark fantasy as well. ... Brides of Dracula is a 1960 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Studios. ...

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David Peel as Baron Meinster fetches his latest bride

Baron Meinster, meanwhile, goes to Marianne and forces her to come with him to the old mill. He intends to bite and turn her in front of Van Helsing. But Van Helsing throws Holy Water into the Baron's face, which sears like acid. He also knocks over the brazier of hot coals he used to burn away his own wound, starting a fire. While the Baron flees outside, Van Helsing takes Marianne up into the mill, then out via the huge sails, which he moves to form the shadow a gigantic cross. The shadows falls on Baron Meinster, who is killed by it. Presumably, the other two vampires die in the fire. Image File history File links Brides_of_dracula_cap4. ... Image File history File links Brides_of_dracula_cap4. ... It has been suggested that windpump be merged into this article or section. ... A crucifix amidst the cornfields near Mureck in rural Styria, Austria A handheld crucifix A crucifix in front of the Holy Spirit Church in Košice, Slovakia A crucifix is a cross with a representation of Jesuss body, or corpus. ...

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 by Dean Owen was published by Monarch Books in 1960, and 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)

David Peel as Dracula's disciple, the Baron Meinster

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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)

Peter Cushing OBE Cushing (left) in the television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the winter of 1954 on BBC Television. ... Martita Hunt (January 30 1900 - June 13 1969) was a theatre and film actress. ... William Miles Malleson (May 25, 1888 – March 15, 1969) was a British actor and dramatist, particularly known for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1950s. ... David Peel (1920-1981) was a British actor. ... Mona Washbourne (November 27, 1903 - November 15, 1988) was a British film and stage actress. ... Henry Oscar, born Henry Wale on 14 July 1891 in London, England, died 28 December 1969, was an English actor on stage and film. ... English actor Michael Ripper (1913–2000) began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown. ...

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

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Notes and references

1. ^ *Rigby, Jonathan, (2000). English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. ISBN 1-903111-01-3. 

External links

• The Brides of Dracula at the Internet Movie Database
• The Brides of Dracula at All Movie Guide
• The Brides of Dracula at Rotten Tomatoes
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