lsasser wrote:
He made the statement that Terence Fisher, Peter Cushing and he visited the President of Universal Pictures and were told that their picture had saved Universal from bankruptcy.

Did Universal Pictures really do that well with Horror Of Dracula?  Sounds like some leg pulling.
  
With all the "This (insert name of movie here) Horror Picture saved Univeral!" stories floating around, the studio often sounds like an overly dramatic and needy girlfriend I once had that was in constant "save me!" mode.