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Burke & Hare

Burke & Hare (1972)

Horror | 91 minutes
2,50 8 votes
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Genre: Horror

Duration: 91 minuten

Alternative titles: Horrors of Burke and Hare / Burke and Hare

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Vernon Sewell

Starst: Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards and Yootha Joyce

IMDb score: 5,2 (655)

Releasedate: 3 February 1972

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Burke & Hare plot

"The pimps and the prostitutes and the body-snatchers. The brothels and dens of iniquity."

The year is 1828 and the place is Edinburgh, Scotland. Universities of medicine need corpses and providing dead prisoners is not enough to satisfy all surgeons. dr. Robert Knox prefers to buy his cadavers. When a tenant in an inn dies, Burke and Hare decide to sell the body. They get a large sum of money for it, which encourages them to sell even more corpses, but they are no longer limited to the bodies of people who have already died...

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Harry Andrews Harry Andrews

Dr. Knox

Glynn Edwards Glynn Edwards

Hare

Yootha Joyce Yootha Joyce

Mrs. Hare

Françoise Pascal Françoise Pascal

Marie

Yutte Stensgaard Yutte Stensgaard

Janet

Robin Hawdon Robin Hawdon

Lord Angus McPhe

Alan Tucker Alan Tucker

Arbuthnot

Dee Shenderey Dee Shenderey

Mrs. Burke

Joan Carol Joan Carol

Madame Thompson

Paul Greaves Paul Greaves

Ferguson

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24 March 2023 at 19:38

Apart from the lurid fact, the film has too few horror elements to be able to speak of a horror film. The story starts a bit slow and mainly focuses on the two gentlemen Burke ( Derren Nesbitt ) and Hare

( Glynn Edwards ) who get the idea not only to dig up the dead and sell them as cadavers to a doctor for scientific purposes, but also to look for even more bodies by killing. The story mainly takes place in the poky streets and in a bar where hookers are present. For example, you see some nude passing by, including the beautiful Marie (Françoise Pascal). 5/10

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