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| Horst Janson | ... | Kronos | |
| John Carson | ... | Dr. Marcus | |
| Shane Briant | ... | Paul Durward | |
| Caroline Munro | ... | Carla | |
| John Cater | ... | Grost | |
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Lois Daine | ... | Sara Durward |
| Ian Hendry | ... | Kerro | |
| Wanda Ventham | ... | Lady Durward | |
| William Hobbs | ... | Hagen | |
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Brian Tully | ... | George Sorell |
| Robert James | ... | Pointer | |
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Perry Soblosky | ... | Barlow |
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Paul Greenwood | ... | Giles |
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Lisa Collings | ... | Vanda Sorell |
| John Hollis | ... | Barman | |
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Vampire hunter and expert swordsman Kronos finds himself in a small village where several of the local young women have been found in an advanced state of age, their youth drained from them by a vampire's kiss. Kronos' search leads him to the Durward estate where he is met by the effete children of the apparently aged and sick Lady Durward. Written by Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
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£160,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Captain Kronos: If a vampire should bestrode / Close to the grave of a dead toad / Then the vampire life shall give / And suddenly, the toad shall live.
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After Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), this was the second and final film that Caroline Munro made under her Hammer contract. See more »Goofs
At time 1:04:40, as the young girl puts the lamp down on the table, you can briefly see the electrical cord fall to the ground from under her arm, where it was hidden while she walked down the steps. See more »Quotes
[an old folk rhyme about vampire detection]Captain Kronos: If a vampire should bestrode / Close to the grave of a dead toad / Then the vampire life shall give / And suddenly, the toad shall live.
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Was Horst Janson really forty years old when he made this? Damn, the man looked good!
Horst plays Captain Kronos, a man who wears a snappy uniform and hunts youth-draining vampires in the company of an affable hunchback. He also wears a bag on his head as part of some bizarre meditative ritual. Aside from the bag-wearing part, he's a solid action hero, and it's a shame that Hammer never turned this good little movie into one of its long-running franchises.
The acting is a highlight: John "don't call me Johnny" Carson gives one of his typically likable and neurotic performances as Doctor Marcus, Wanda Ventham makes a lovely villainess, and Ian Hendry has an amusing cameo as an obnoxious thug (how the mighty had fallen, though -wasn't he a star at one point?). There's also great lines aplenty and some nice choreography for the sword-fights.
This is the kind of movie that Full Moon - or for that matter, Dimension films - wishes it could make. Alas, modern horror is usually too gross and uninventive to match the charm and creativity of a Hammer "classic" such as "Captain Kronos."