Countess Dracula (Peter Sasdy, 1971) (Dual) [RePoPo]

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Countess Dracula (Peter Sasdy, 1971)

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General Information

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Type.................: movie

File Validation......: SFV

Container File.......: AVI

Video Format.........: H.264

Video Bitrate........: 1803

Audio Format.........: AC3 (192Kb/s x 2)

Audio Languages......: English 1.0, Spanish 1.0

Subtitles............: Spanish

Resolution...........: 704x384

Color................: 24 bit

FPS..................: 25.000

Source...............: DVD 16x9

Duration.............: 01:29:13

Original Format......: PAL

Genre................: Horror

IMDb Rating..........: 5.7

IMDB.................: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065580/


FilmAffinity.........: http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film825868.html


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Release Notes

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ORIGINAL TITLE: Countess Dracula

YEAR: 1971

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

DIRECTOR: Peter Sasdy

SCREENWRITER: Peter Sasdy, Alexander Paal, Jeremy Paul

COMPOSER: Harry Robinson

CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ken Talbot

CAST: Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Eles, Maurice Denham,

Patience Collier, Peter Jeffrey, Lesley-Anne Down,

Leon Lissek, Jessie Evans, Andrea Lawrence

STUDIO/PRODUCER: Hammer Films. Rank Film Distributors

GENRE: Horror



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SYNOPSIS/PLOT:



When a voracious vampire vixen (Ingrid Pitt) discovers that virgins' blood holds

the secret to eternal youth, it's not time at all before she's squeezing her

sweet young chambermaids into a blood-chilling beauty cream. But there's a

wrinkle in her plan when her beloved, Captain Dobi, stumbles on her bloody

secret-and she finally learns that a little mass murder really can suck the

romance out of your love life!



TRIVIA:



* Ingrid Pitt's voice was dubbed. Supposedly, she was so furious at

director Peter Sasdy that she vowed never to speak to him again.



* Countess Dracula was based on Hungarian Countess Erzsebet (our modern day

"Elizabeth") Bathory who lived from 1560 to 1614. Countess Bathory was allegedly

responsible for the deaths of approximately 600 virgin girls, all of which

involved torture and gruesome methods of killing. Her atrocities are mostly

speculation. She is credited for influencing our modern day concept of Dracula

as an entity depending on human blood for youth and vitality.



* The picture that appears behind the opening credits is an 1896 painting by

Hungarian artist Istvan Csok. It shows the real Countess Bathory enjoying the

torture of some young women by her servants. In an inner courtyard of one of her

castles, the naked girls are being drenched with water and allowed to freeze to

death in the snow.



* Ingrid Pitt replaced Diana Rigg who turned the role down.



* Although cuts were requested by the BBFC (and the film remains listed as

cut on their website) the edits were never made following an appeal by Hammer to

chief censor Stephen Murphy.



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