Brides of Dracula, The
Date: 1960
Director: Terence Fisher
Production Company: Hammer Films
Stars: Peter Cushing, Freda Jackson, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur
Location(s): Berkshire, Buckinghamshire
Region(s): South East A-D
Storyline:
Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy the vampire Baron Meinster, who has designs on a young schoolteacher.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 18 Jun 2020
A coach carrying Marianne Danielle, a young French schoolteacher, speeds through a Transylvanian forest. Seen numerous times in many productions, this is Black Park, Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire.
Gordon Thomson took his constitutional along this oft used path. (RL)
- Capture 2
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Doctor Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) enters the village inn where Marianne is staying. This is likely a set at Bray Studios in Berkshire.
- Capture 3
- 18 Jun 2020
Chasing Baron Meinster from his castle, Van Helsing watches the vampire escape by coach. The entrance of Oakley Court on Windsor Road in Oakley Green near Windsor, Berkshire. The location appears in many other films including ‘And Now The Screaming Starts’, ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’, ‘The Man from Nowhere’, 'Oxford', 'The Gambler and the Lady', ‘The House in Nightmare Park’, ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)’, ‘What the Butler Saw’ and ‘The Man in Black’.
Fortunately there was no one to chase Gordon off whilst capturing this shot for us. (RL)