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In 2009 the British Film Institute re-released an uncut version of Hammer’s original ‘X’ (16) rated 1958 production of Dracula as a certificate ‘12A’. The main cut that had been reinstated was of a staking which showed the stake entering a body, with the welling of blood: a scene that the UK Censor at the time deemed too graphic for an adult audience to see. Yet, the same scene survived in the American print for parental guided matinees.
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Reviews of The Curse of Frankenstein by Campbell Dixon, Daily Telegraph, May 1957.
C.A. Lejeune, Observer, 3 May 1957.
C.A. Lejeune, Observer, 31 May 1958.
Nina Hibbin, Daily Worker, 31 May 1958.
Lejeune, Observer, 31 August 1958.
John Trevelyan, What the Censor Saw (London: Michael Joseph, 1973), pp. 60, 63.
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Kinsey, W. (2011). ‘Don’t Dare See It Alone!’ The Fifties Hammer Invasion. In: Jones, D., McCarthy, E., Murphy, B.M. (eds) It Came From the 1950s!. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230337237_5
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