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flesh and the fiends b & w wse
edinburgh 1827 . irish immigrants burke george rose and hare donald pleasance hit upon the idea of selling the bodies of the recently deceased to eminent surgeon dr. robert knox peter cushing . 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 beginning to run out they decide to speed up 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 . br br new widescreen transfers of both the british and the continental versions of the film alternate title sequence from mania the first u.s. version of the film director and cast filmographies photo & poster gallery liner notes by genre writer jonathan sothcott . br br new widescreen transfers of both the british and the continental versions of the film alternate title sequence from mania the first u.s. version of the film director and cast filmographies photo & poster gallery liner notes by genre writer jonathan sothcott .
dvd rating not rated runtime 95 image entertainment 08 14 2001
actors peter cushing donald pleasence renee houston june laverick george rose billie whitelaw aspect ratio 16 9 2.35 1 created by stage pcm created date 2014 08 23 06 09 36.0 director john gilling duration 94 dvd region code 1 edition special edition languages english modified by stage pcm modified date 2015 04 17 03 40 39.0 mpaa rating not rated record label image release date 1029283200000 studio & production company image entertainment