The Brides of Dracula (1960) on Netflix
Student teacher Marianne Danielle is stranded at a Transylvania inn, where Baroness Meinster offers her a night at her castle. There she finds the baroness's son chained, and frees him.
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Plot summary
Marianne Danielle is a student teacher traveling to a post in Transylvania. Her coach leaves a village inn without her, and the inn has no room for the night, until the Baroness von Meinster offers her a bed at her castle. There Marianne notices a young man on the balcony below her own and learns from the baroness that he is her son, the Baron, kept out of sight by an illness. Visiting his room, she finds him fastened by the ankle and hears him say his mother has taken his lands. He asks her to set him free, and she takes the key from the baroness's desk. Doctor Van Helsing, meanwhile, travels toward the village, where the local priest has asked for him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Brides of Dracula (1960)
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- Christopher Lee was asked to reprise Count Dracula in the sequel but turned it down because he feared being typecast; he went on to play the part again in the next film in the series, Dracula: Prince of Darkness. David Peel was cast as his replacement, the vampire Baron Meinster.
- Hammer had Jimmy Sangster write a sequel called Disciple of Dracula, about a vampire's acolyte with Count Dracula only making a cameo. Peter Bryan rewrote the script to cut Dracula and add Van Helsing, Edward Percy revised it further, and Terence Fisher and Peter Cushing were reportedly involved in the rewrites too.
