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- BFI identifier29738
- Date1959 (Copyright)
1960 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisSet in Edinburgh in the 1820's. Burke and Hare make money supplying bodies to Dr. Knox for medical research. Becoming greedy, they turn to murder... (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe opening credits include the following statement: This is the story of lost men and lost souls. It is a story of vice and murder. We make no apologies to the dead. It is all true.
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- Credits
- CastPeter Cushing (Dr Robert Knox)
Donald Pleasence (William Hare)
June Laverick (Martha Knox)
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Title
The Flesh and the Fiends (Original)
Mania (Alternative)
The Fiendish Ghouls (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/4DBC-3DC5-E3CF-A612-583F-3Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes September 2019
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Work - 29738 - 1959 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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