The Dracula movie so cursed, Christopher Lee refused to speak a single word.
Documentary that chronicles the making of the third film in Hammer's Dracula series.
Writing
Why Lee's Dracula went mute—spite, contract, or art?
Production
Gothic sets built in literal weeks on shoestring budgets.
Director
Marcus Hearn
Barbara Shelley
Self - Original Cast Member / Helen Kent
Marcus Hearn
Self - Hammer Films Historian
Mark Gatiss
Self - Actor and Writer
Jonathan Rigby
Self - Author
Francis Matthews
Self - Original Cast Member / Charles Kent
Christopher Lee
Dracula (archive footage)
Suzan Farmer
Diana Kent (archive footage) (uncredited)
Andrew Keir
Father Sandor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Philip Latham
Klove (archive footage) (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lee claimed he 'could not utter the dialogue written' and improvised his hissing. The screenwriter called it 'unprofessional nonsense.'
This doc features one of Francis Matthews' final interviews before his death in 2018, making his anecdotes about 1965 Pinewood Studios especially poignant.
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