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Burke and Hare (1971)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1971
Running Times: 98m
Length: 8,833 ft
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:
DIRECTION
Directed by: Vernon Sewell
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © Kenneth Shipman Productions Limited MCMLXXI [1971]
Production Company: Kenneth Shipman Productions present
Executive Producer: Kenneth Shipman
Produced by: Guido Coen
Production Manager: David Griffith
SCRIPT
Original Screenplay by: Ernie Bradford
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Ray Corbett
Continuity: Betty Harley
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Desmond Dickinson
Camera Operator: Norman Jones
Focus: Terry Winfield
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: John Colville
Colour by: Rank Film Processing
MUSIC
Music Composed & Conducted by: Roger Webb
SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
The song "Burke and Hare"
Lyrics by: Norman Newell
Sung by The Scaffold
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Barry Copeland
Dubbing Director: Gerry Humphreys
RCA Sound Recording
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Chief Wardrobe Master: Arthur Newman
Chief Make-up Artist: Tony Sforzini
Hair Stylist: Barbara Sutton
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Pat Moore (uncredited)
TITLES AND OPTICALS
Title Backgrounds Designed by: A.L. Palmer
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Scott Macgregor
Assistant Art Director: Don Picton
LOCATIONS
Made at: Twickenham Film Studios, St. Margaret's, Twickenham, England
STUNTS
Fight Sequence Arranged by: Paddy Ryan
CAST
Derren Nesbitt (Burke)
Harry Andrews (Dr Knox)
Glynn Edwards (Hare)
Yootha Joyce (Mrs Hare)
introducing
Françoise Pascal as Marie
with
Yutte Stensgaard (Janet)
Robin Hawdon (Lord Angus McPhee)
Alan Tucker (Arbuthnot)
Dee Shenderey as Mrs Burke
and
Joan Carol (Madame Thompson)
Paul Greaves (Ferguson)
David Pugh (Daft Jamie)
Thomas Heathcote (Paterson)
James Hayter (Dr Selby)
Duncan Lamont (Dr Saint)
Paul Luty (Cruncher)
Roy Macready (Merrilees)
Susan Coates (Polly)
Christine Pilgrim (Rosie)
Kenneth Thornett (Councillor Gordon)
Katya Wyeth (Natalie)
Caroline Yates (Annie)
Frederick Piper (lodger)
Victor Brooks (butler)
Alan Judd (Mr Murdoch)
Reg Lye (Old Joe)
Stewart Bevan (Bruce)
Charles Houston (barman)
Stanley McGeagh (Sergeant MacTavish)
Caron Gardner (Maggie)
Maudie Edwards (woman passer-by)
Joan Rhodes (Hairy Mary)
Jerold Wells (landlord)
Bob Todd (Guard Campbell)
Ken Parry (fat man in brothel)
Keith Anderson (client in brothel)
Lindsay Marsh (Liz)
Brian Croucher (client in brothel)
Noël Coleman (fire chief)
Bill Shine (landlord)
John J. Carney (Guard MacKenzie)
Roger Avon (second guard)
Kerry Nesbitt (Flora)
Madoline Thomas (Mary Doherty)
John Moore (boy)
and
The Children of the Italia Conti School
PLOT SUMMARY
Edinburgh surgeon Dr Knox employs the dubious services of Burke and
Hare, a pair of grave robbers to find corpses for his anatomy classes.
Grave robbing turns to murder as the pair get out of hand and Knox is
eventually implicated in the crimes.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: United Artists
USA
Theatrical Distributor: New World
Video Distributor: New World Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment (ID 7442 RG)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: X (with cuts)
USA
Rating: R
TIMELINE
1971
August
12: UK - rated X by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
POSTER TAGS
The pimps and the prostitutes and the body-snatchers.
The brothels and dens of iniquity.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Horrors of Burke and Hare, The
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Anatomist, The (1939)
Anatomist, The (1961)
Play
of the Month: The Anatomist (1980)
Body Snatcher, The (1945)
Doctor and the Devils, The (1985)
Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Flesh and the
Fiends (1959)
Greed of William Hart, The (1948)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Monthly Film Bulletin February 1972 p.28
(UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Variety 12 May 1971 p.117 (USA)
credits, review
Video Watchdog no.11 pp.20-21 (USA)
review
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991-1992 p.58
credits, review
Horror and Science Fiction Films Volume II p.48
credits
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.51
credits
Ten Years of Terror pp.87-89
illustrated credits, review (by Kim Newman)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
body snatchers, doctors, true crime
Last Updated:
19 March, 2009
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