Brides Of Dracula

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	Caption	The Brides of Dracula VHS cover
	Director	Terence Fisher
	Producer	Anthony Hinds
	Starring	Peter Cushing <br> Martita Hunt
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	Released	July 7 , 1960 UK release
	Runtime	85 min
	Language	English
	Imdb Id	0053677

''The Brides of Dracula'' is a '' in 1965 .

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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 Dr. 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 either proved too expensive to stage and shoot or 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 .

Van Helsing mentions Dracula only once in a brief line of dialogue.

''"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 {Link without Title} 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)

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