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With an eventual budget of £81,412, Dracula began
principal photography on 11 November 1957. Peter
Cushing starred as Van Helsing and Christopher Lee as
Count Dracula, with direction by Terence Fisher and set
design by Bernard Robinson that was radically different
from the Universal adaptation — so radical, in fact,
that Hammer executives considered paying him off and
finding another designer. Many consider Dracula to
be Hammer's finest film.
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Dracula was an enormous success, breaking box-office
records in the UK, the United States (released as Horror
of Dracula), Canada, and across the world. On 20 August
1958 the Daily Cinema reported,
"Because of the fantastic business done world-wide by
Hammer's Technicolor version of Dracula,
Universal-International, its distributors, have made
over to Jimmy Carreras' organisation, the remake rights
to their entire library of classic films"
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