The Vampire | |
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Directed by | Paul Landres |
Written by | Pat Fielder |
Produced by | Arthur Gardner Jules V. Levy |
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Cinematography | Jack MacKenzie |
Edited by | John Faure |
Music by | Gerald Fried |
Production companies | Gramercy Pictures, Inc. |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $115,000 |
The Vampire is a 1957 American horror film produced by Arthur Gardner and Jules V. Levy, directed by Paul Landres, and starring John Beal and Coleen Gray. Its plot follows a San Francisco physician who inadvertently ingests pills laced with the blood of vampire bats, leading him to take on vampiric qualities. Like 1956's The Werewolf, it offered a science fiction take on a traditionally supernatural creature, although the films were produced by different production companies.
The film was released theatrically in San Francisco as the bottom half of a double feature with The Monster That Challenged the World. When released to television, the film was given the alternative title Mark of the Vampire,[2][3] though it is unrelated to the 1935 film of the same name starring Bela Lugosi.[citation needed]
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