Blood Of The Vampire

AKA's:

Dämon Mit Den Blutigen Händen, Der / Sang Du Vampire, Le / Sangre Del Vampiro, La / Sangue Del Vampiro, Il / Vampyrens Blod / Venganza Del Vampiro, La

Release date:	1958 UK
Running time:	85' (cover 85') - Source: VHS NTSC
Rating:	Germ.: 18; UK: PG; US: NR
Main Crew:	Director: Henry Cass (The Hand 1960; Last Holiday 1950) Producer: Artistes Alliance Ltd. Score: Stanley Black Writer: Jimmy Sangster Director of photography: Monty Berman
Cast:	Use the dropdown menu to see the full cast Sir Donald Wolfit / Callistratus Vincent Ball / Dr. John Pierre Barbara Shelley / Madeleine Duval Victor Maddern / Carl, the Hunchback William Devlin / Kurt Urach Andrew Faulds / Chief Guard Wetzler Bryan Coleman / Auron George Murcell / First Guard Julian Strange / Second Guard Bruce Whiteman / Third Guard John Le Mesurier / Chief Justice Colin Tapley / Commissioner of Prisons John Stuart / Uncle Phillippe Henri Vidon / Prof. Bernhardt Meinster Cameron Hall / The Drunken Doctor Bernard Bresslaw / Tall Thief Hal Osmond / Small Thief Max Brimmell / Jail Warder Barbara Burke / Housekeeper Otto Diamond / Gravedigger Yvonne Buckingham / Serving Wench Muriel Allen / Gypsy Dancer Denis Shaw / Blacksmith Milton Reid / Executioner Richard Golding / Town Official Theodore Wilhelm / Emaciated Prisoner Carlos Williams / Stretcher Bearer Gordon Honeycombe / Stretcher Bearer Sylvia Casimir / Laughing Woman in Tavern
Summary:	A small-town Transylvanian doctor (renowned Shakespearean actor Sir Donald Wolfit) is executed in 1874 for his proclivity to neck-biting. Despite the stake through his heart, he is brought back to life through a heart transplant by a disreputable colleague at the urgings of his one-eyed hunchback assistant (Victor Maddern). Meanwhile, a promising young Bavarian physician, known for his work in blood-transfusions, is sent to a prison hospital for the criminally insane after being framed for murder. The revived Dr. Callistratus, now head of the notorious prison, is suffering from a rare blood ailment, and seeks a cure for his malady by conducting experiments on the inmates, and finally sets his sights on the young doctor's sweetheart (Barbara Shelley)...
Note:	- Often mistaken for a Hammer Film production (mainly because it was written by Hammer regular scribe Jimmy Sangster and shows some definite influence from Hammer horrors of the period), "Blood Of The Vampire" attempts to come up with a scientific equivalent of vampirism. Wolfit's "vampire" (with a certain similarity to Bela Lugosi) is not the regular vampire character, but rather a resurrected doctor with a strange condition that requires fresh blood from frequent victims. - Director Henry Cass was commonly employed directing classic dramas by Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw at the "Old Vic Theater" in England.
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