CLASSIC HORROR FILMS


Dracula
1958

| 82 MINS | COLOUR | HAMMER |




OVERVIEW

Jonathan Harker goes to castle Dracula to take employment as a librarian. When he gets to the castle, he finds the hall deserted and a note explaining the host's absence. A woman in white appears and implores Harker to take her away from the castle. When Harker sees an ominous figure at the top of the stairs, none other than Count Dracula, the woman disappears, and Dracula descends. Dracula exchanges some words with Harker and then shows him to his room, locking the door behind him. It is then revealed than Harker has not come to the castle as Dracula's librarian, but as his destroyer; at the service of Van Helsing - the great vampire hunter.

Testing the door that night, Harker finds it unlocked. Investigating, he again sees the woman in white, and after thwarting her vampiric attacks, he becomes instead the victim of Dracula.

After Harker disappears, Professor Van Helsing is led to the castle, and he finds that Dracula has left taking with him a picture of Lucy, Harker's fiance. After dispatching Harker, who is now a vampire, with a stake, Van Helsing pursues Dracula with one goal - to destroy him!


Dracula 1958 - Hammer Films

Dracula(1958)



ALTERNATE TITLE

Known in the USA as The Horror Of Dracula.


DIRECTOR

Terence Fisher


CAST

Peter Cushing -- Doctor Van Helsing

Christopher Lee -- Count Dracula

Michael Gough -- Arthur Holmwood

Melissa Stribling -- Mina Holmwood

Carol Marsh -- Lucy Holmwood

Olga Dickie -- Gerda

John Van Eyssen -- Jonathan Harker

Valerie Gaunt -- Vampire Woman

Janina Faye -- Tania (as Janine Faye)

Barbara Archer -- Inga

Charles Lloyd Pack -- Dr. Seward

George Merritt -- Policeman

George Woodbridge -- Landlord

George Benson -- Frontier Official

Miles Malleson -- Undertaker




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