The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

1974
R
1 घं 29 मि

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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

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अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंIn China, Professor Van Helsing helps eight kung fu-trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.In China, Professor Van Helsing helps eight kung fu-trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.In China, Professor Van Helsing helps eight kung fu-trained siblings reclaim their ancestral mountain village, now the domain of seven powerful vampires and their army of undead slaves.

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पुरस्कार
- कुल 1 नामांकन

Hsi Ching
(as David Chiang)

Julie Ege

Vanessa Buren

Han-Chen Wang

Leung Hon
(as Wong Han Chan)

Robin Stewart

Leyland Van Helsing

Szu Shih

Mei Kwei
(as Shih Szu)

John Forbes-Robertson

Dracula

Robert Hanna

British Consul

Shen Chan

Kah
(as Chan Shen)

Tsan-Hsi Ma

Hsi Ta
(as James Ma)

Chia-Yung Liu

Hsi Kwei
(as Liu Chia Yung)

Hark-On Fung

Hsi Sung
(as Fong Kah Ann)

Tino Wong

Hsi San
(as Chen Tien-loong)

Chuan Chen

David de Keyser

Count Dracula
(वॉइस)
(बिना क्रेडिट के)

Chi-Chang Ho

Hsia Hsu

Ha Huang

निर्देशक
- Roy Ward Baker
- Cheh Chang
लेखक
- Don Houghton
- Bram Stoker
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Christopher Lee tried to talk Peter Cushing out of doing the film, as he considered it to be beneath an actor of Cushing's status. Lee told Cushing that Ralph Bates was willing to step in and do Cushing's role of Professor Lawrence Van Helsing if Cushing did not want to do it, but Cushing replied that he thought the change of scenery might help his depression after struggling with his wife's death two years previously.

गूफ़
One of the taglines on the film's U.S. theatrical release poster says "Black Belt vs. Black Magic!". The martial arts ranks of colored belts are used in karate, which is Japanese in origin. The Chinese characters portrayed here practice kung fu, which originated in their home country.

भाव
Dracula: Who dares to disturb the sanctity of Count Dracula?
Dracula: Who are you?
Kah: My Lord, my name is Kah. I am the High Priest of the 7 Golden Vampires in Ping Kwei in the province of Szechwan in China. When the vampires walk... my temple was the center of all power in the area, the populace bore allegiance to me. But now... My Lord. The vampires sleep, and the people go their own ways. The power is lost, I have travelled many moons. Seeking the Castle Dracula, I look to thee. For thy help. Ressurect the 7 Golden Vampires. Let the legend live on.
Dracula: Wretch... I do not grand favors, I do not acceed to the requests of minions. Know you not Dracula commands even from the confines of this miserable place?
Dracula: This miserable place.
Dracula: Yet... you can serve me, Kah.
Kah: My Lord Dracula, i will obey your commands.
Dracula: I need your mortal coil, i need the form of your miserable carcass. I need your vile image. I need to walk this Earth again, free from these walls, free from this mausoleum. I will return to your temple, in your image, Kah. I will recall the 7 Golden Vampires, as my own host. Tools of my vengeance on mankind, I will take on your mentor. Your appearance, your image.
Dracula: [Dracula's disembodied voice] Your image, Kah.
Kah: [Kah, now possessed by Count Dracula] Kah, your own image. But beneath the image, the immortal power... of Count Dracula.

इसके अलावा अन्य वर्जन
The cut U.S. version of this film titled "The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula" runs 75 minutes compared to the 89-minute run of the original uncut UK version of it titled "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires". Both of these versions were once available on the two now-out-of-print U.S. DVD releases of the film by Anchor Bay Entertainment (the first time as a solo DVD release in 1998 as part of one of their DVD series titled "The Hammer Collection" and the second time as a 2-disc DVD release in 2004 together with Anchor Bay's earlier and also now-out-of-print solo DVD release in 2000 of the film Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) as part of another one of their DVD series titled "The Hammer Collection Double Feature") and are currently available on the U.S. Blu-ray release of it in 2019 by Shout! Factory/Scream Factory. The cut U.S. version removes entire sections of the film's dialogue (e.g., about 50% of the scene of Van Helsing's address to the university students, about 50% of the scene of the soiree near its beginning, 50% of the dialogue between Dracula and Kah, almost all of the romantic dialogue in the cave) and also re-edits it in order to position various action scenes at its beginning. The opening 10 minutes of the cut U.S. version features scenes from the 7 Golden Vampires' attack on the village, an old man destroying the seventh Golden Vampire and the vampires rising from their graves that was taken from the end of it, all of which were then sloppily put together into one long and incoherent sequence. Some of the scenes in it (e.g., the 7 Golden Vampires attacking the village and taking off the clothes of two village girls) are shown three times, one of those times with the scene shown in reverse. The scene in Castle Dracula which is the pre-credits scene in the original uncut UK version of the film now takes place about 15 minutes into the cut U.S. version of it and it has been so heavily and horribly edited to the point that it is now completely incoherent and out of context. The purpose of the cut U.S. version was to highlight the exploitation elements of the film and remove anything in it that was not sex and violence - and yet the "good" sex and violence in it was shown at least twice! In the end, the cut U.S. version of this film has since become a textbook example of how NOT to release a foreign film in the U.S.

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A ripping yarn...40 years ahead of its time!

Van Helsing goes to China...and the result is ripping good yarn!

When this movie first came out, many Hammer fans were appalled at the idea of Hammer producer Michael Carreras teaming with Hong Kong movie mogul Run Run Shaw to create a Hammer/Kung Fu hybrid; it seemed like a desperate attempt to revive the declining Hammer brand by grafting it onto the ascendant Kung Fu craze. Looking back from the vantage point of 2011--after seeing Batman, Hellboy, Iron Man, The Mummy franchise, et. al. go to China--Carerras's cross-cultural gambit looks like genius, and 40 years ahead of its time...perhaps literally so, since the revived Hammer company is now talking about doing a remake.

If you fear this movie will be a Kung Fu actioner with lots of bone-crunching sound effects and nuggets of inscrutable wisdom, think again. It's pure Hammer from start to finish, with a reliable anchoring performance by Peter Cushing as Van Helsing. It seems the venerable doctor is doing some anthropological field work in China; when he lectures at a university, his unwelcome discussion of vampires draws catcalls but finds one receptive listener who knows the truth of the Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. Add a traveling European heiress with a taste for adventure and a fortune to fund an expedition into the hinterland, and the plot is off and running.

This is a work of high fantasy that draws not just on Bram Stoker but on a long tradition of English literature. The narrative brio reminds me of the adventure stories of H. Rider Haggard (here set in China instead of Africa). There's also a bit of Tolkien in the storytelling, with the 7 Golden Vampires reminiscent of the Nazgul, Dracula of Sauron, and Van Helsing of Gandalf, leading a motley fellowship on a journey to destroy evil. As the travelers draw ever nearer to their goal, they engage in repeated battles that take a terrible toll, right up to the final confrontation with the Evil One himself. (Lest you think the Tolkien parallel is a stretch, consider that the character of Van Helsing was one of Tolkien's inspirations for Gandalf, the keeper of secret knowledge who advises and motivates those who would rid the world of its greatest evil.)

The action scenes look quite dated, but only because we've grown used to seeing aerial martial arts performed with guy-wires against a blue-screen; in the old-fashioned Kung Fu films, acrobats were still subject to the laws of gravity.