Nov 12th
Blood of the Vampire*
GB 1958. Universal/Artistes Alliance. 85m.

A vampiric doctor runs an asylum where he experiments on the patients to try and cure him of his own blood disease.
Moderately effective regurgitation of the Hammer style, using some of the same talents, with a distinguished doyen of the stage (who was later satirised in the film Theatre of Blood) in a rare film leading role. The rest of the cast is interesting too, although production-wise it's rather loosely assembled in certain departments, and with a weak finale.

Written by: Jimmy Sangster.
Producers: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman.
Director: Henry Cass.
Starring: Donald Wolfit, Vincent Ball, Barbara Shelley, Victor Maddern, William Devlin, Andrew Faulds, Bryan Coleman, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Bresslaw.
Photography: Monty Berman.
Music: Stanley Black.
Art Direction: John Elphick.