Bram Stoker's legendary vampire Count (port-rayed for the second time by Christopher Lee)
was resurrected for the third Dracula production
from the Hammer stable. The final scenes from
Dracula (1958), starring Peter Cushing as Dr.
Van Helsing, were reprised as a prologue here.
Lee would next return as the Count for Dracula
Has Risen From the Grave (1968) then five in
further features until 1974.
Released in early 1966, the film was shown on
Legend Extra today - it featured eight Doctor
Who cast and crew connections:
- Andrew Keir [born Buggy] (Sandor) and Barbara [Teresa] Shelley [born Kowin] (Helen) both starred in Quatermass and the Pit just a year later - Keir's next film role was Wyler in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD, whilst Shelley played Sorasta in Planet of Fire
- [Charles] Philip Latham (Klove) was President Borusa (pictured) in The Five Doctors
- Philip Ray [born Roy Edgar Cochrane] (Priest) was Eldred in The Seeds of Death
- John Maxim (Driver) was Frankenstein's Monster in (episode 4 of) The Chase, and [as John Wills] a Cyberman in The Moonbase
- Fred [Thomas] Wood (Mourner) and stuntman Eddie Powell both appeared in the second Dalek film too
- stuntman Peter [Alexander] Diamond was a stunt double and fight arranger on the classic run (from The Dalek Invasion of Earth to The Daemons)
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