Mar 7th  
Taste the Blood of Dracula      

(GB 1969)        

Three hypocritical Victorian gentlemen are invited to invoke the spirit of Count Dracula, who comes for them when they kill his servant.
Visually diverting and distinguished but also hammy Hammer, in the manner of the penny dreadfuls, with a good cast but the star becoming disillusioned at the role now being exploited solely for commercial reasons, and flimsily at that.

Written by: John Elder (Anthony Hinds).
Producer: Aida Young.
Director: Peter Sasdy.
Starring: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, John Carson, Ralph Bates, Peter Sallis, Linda Hayden, Anthony Corlan, Gwen Watford, Isla Blair, Martin Jarvis, Roy Kinnear.
Photography: Arthur Grant.
Music: James Bernard.
Art Direction: Scott MacGregor.            

Preceded by:
Surprise*
(GB TVM 2016. 12m.; A retiring schoolteacher is bullied by her reclusive husband.; w: Rich Chilver; d: Simon J. Fritton, Tom Edwards; s: Paul T. Davies, Jenny Burke; for Deadline Communications/Essex County Council.)