The Body Snatcher
GRAVES RAIDED! COFFINS ROBBED! CORPSES CARVED! MIDNIGHT MURDER! BODY BLACKMAIL! STALKING GHOULS! Mad Thrills of Terror And Macabre Mystery... –and don't blame us if you stay awake all night!
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- Thriller
- Horror
Overview
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
Keywords
- murder
- black and white
- scotland
- medical research
- edinburgh
- blackmail
- body snatching
- grave robber
- medical student
- medical ethics
- cadaver
- medical profession
- dissection
- body snatcher
- burking
- medical education
- child in distress
- edinburgh, scotland
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 25, 1945
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Cast
- Boris Karloff,Bela Lugosi,Henry Daniell,Edith Atwater,Russell Wade,Rita Corday,Sharyn Moffett,Donna Lee,Ted Billings,Bobby Burnsand 13 more
- Director
- Robert Wise
- Producer
- Jack J. Gross,Val Lewton
- Cinematography
- Robert De Grasse
- Music
- Roy Webb
- Budget
- $125,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0037549