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1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
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Billie Whitelaw, Donald Pleasence, George Rose, June Laverick, Peter Cushing |
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Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1960. |
| Summary |
More Fearsome Than Frankenstein... More Demonic Than Dracula! Edinburgh, 1827. Irish immigrants Burke (George Rose, A New Leaf) and Hare (Donald Pleasence, Halloween) hit upon the idea of selling the bodies of the recently deceased to eminent surgeon Dr. Robert Knox (Peter Cushing, The Skull). Dr. Knox, knowing that experimental vivisection is the only way for medicine to make progress, forms an uneasy alliance with the self-styled body snatchers. When Burke and Hares’ supply of available corpses begins to run out, they decide to speed the process along by murdering the poor and the homeless. Men and women, old and young, everyone becomes a target for the deadly duo, but even as the body count rises, Knox turns a blind eye to their methods in order to further his research. But after one of his own medical students is murdered, Knox finds it difficult to remain impassive. With the public out for the killers’ blood and the Medical Council out to disgrace him, Dr. Knox must use all of his skill and intelligence to preserve the dignity of his profession and to justify his controversial actions in the face of near-universal condemnation. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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In English |
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Crime.
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Drama.
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Motion pictures.
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Horror films.
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Feature films.
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Gilling, John, film director.
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Whitelaw, Billie, actor.
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Pleasence, Donald, actor.
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Rose, George, actor.
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Laverick, June, actor.
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Cushing, Peter, actor.
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Kino Lorber (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
12219644 Kanopy |
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