Blood of the Vampire | |
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Directed by | Henry Cass |
Written by | Jimmy Sangster |
Produced by | Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman |
Starring | Donald Wolfit Barbara Shelley Vincent Ball Victor Maddern |
Cinematography | Monty Berman |
Edited by | Douglas Myers |
Music by | Stanley Black |
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Distributed by | Eros Films Universal International Pictures (US) |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British colour horror film directed by Henry Cass and starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, and Vincent Ball. The film was produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman for Tempean Films, from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster.[1]
The film's U.S. release was in October 1958 as a double feature with Universal's Monster on the Campus (1958).
The film's storyline, set in Transylvania, is about a scientist who uses the inmates of a prison for the criminally insane as sources for his gruesome blood-typing and transfusion experiments that are keeping him alive.