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Name: The Body Snatcher (1945)
Released: 1945-5-25
Cast: Henry Daniell, Boris Karloff, Russell Wade, Rita Corday, Bela Lugosi

The Body Snatcher (1945)

TV-PG
1h 18m
1945

86%

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Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi star in a classic Robert Lewis Stevenson tale ... which was itself based on a true story of notorious grave robbers. To conduct his humanitarian research, a doctor in Edinburgh, Scotland, needs a constant supply of fresh corpses--provided by his evil henchman (Karloff), who steals bodies from the graveyard. But when the cemetery runs short, the grave robber turns to murder.

Director:

Robert Wise

Producer:

Val Lewton

Writer:

Carlos Keith, Philip MacDonald

Cast:

Henry Daniell, Boris Karloff, Russell Wade, Rita Corday, Bela Lugosi, Sharyn Moffett, Edith Atwater

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Reviews

Radio Times

Alan Jones

Producer Val Lewton's version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Burke and Hare-like corpse-stealing short story is a horror masterpiece.

A horror item considerably better than most.

...a good example of a kind of horror style that we've lost the knack of; intelligent, thoughtful, thrilling and yet subtle in its intention...

Essentially turns the tale of famous Scotland serial killers Burke and Hare into a fictional recounting with altered protagonists, allies, cover-ups, and other elaborations.

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Battleship Pretension

David Bax

As much as it's a movie about grisly killings, The Body Snatcher is also a movie about class.

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