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Overview

User Rating:
5.7/10   136 votes
Director:
Edward Dein
Writers:
Edward Dein (writer)
Mildred Dein (writer)
Release Date:
May 1959 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Western more
Tagline:
His body is an empty shell that hides a lustful fiend! more
Plot:
B-grade western with a twist: mysterious gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's... more | full synopsis
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User Comments:
Classy little chiller more

Cast

 (Complete credited cast)
Eric Fleming ... Preacher Dan Young
Michael Pate ... Drake Robey
Kathleen Crowley ... Dolores Carter
John Hoyt ... Dr. John Carter
Bruce Gordon ... Buffer
Jimmy Murphy ... Tim Carter
Helen Kleeb ... Dora
Jay Adler ... Bartender
Eddie Parker ... Buffer's Henchman (as Edwin Parker)
John Truax ... Buffer's Henchman
Frankie Van ... Buffer's Henchman

Rush Williams ... Buffer's Henchman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Alan Reynolds ... Frank
Amzie Strickland ... Frank's Wife
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Mark of the West (USA) (16mm release title)
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Runtime:
79 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Shot in 18 days. more

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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Classy little chiller, 19 January 1999
8/10
Author: angelynx from Washington DC

I've always liked this movie: it takes a theme that could easily have been preposterous (a vampire Western?) and handles it with restraint, dignity, a nice feel for its two respective folklores, and deep, handsome B&W photography. It's an easy step from natural to supernatural for that classic Western icon, the mysterious, black-clad gunslinger who rides into town by night, and the rest of the movie is just as comfortable a blend. The laconic vampire, Drake Robey ("The dead don't bother me, ma'am, it's the living that give me trouble") is a noble monster who first preys on, then falls for the feisty rancher heroine, and there's a neat iconic scene involving a bullet mounted with Preacher Dan's precious fragment of the True Cross. Really a classy little movie and most unfairly overlooked - I can't believe this is the first comment on it!

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