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The Body snatcher

Karloff portrays a cab driver in mid-19th century Edinburgh who earns extra money by supplying corpses to one of the most prestigious medical professors in the city. Blackmail and murder round out this story of psychological terror.

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  • "récupérateur de cadavres"
  • "Récupérateur de cadavres"
  • "Body snatcher"@it
  • "Robert Louis Stevenson's The body snatcher"@en
  • "Robert Louis Stevenson's The body snatcher"

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  • "Karloff portrays a cab driver in mid-19th century Edinburgh who earns extra money by supplying corpses to one of the most prestigious medical professors in the city. Blackmail and murder round out this story of psychological terror."@en
  • "Atmospheric horror film based on a Robert Louis Stevenson short story. Set in Edinburgh of 1831, a gifted doctor who runs a medical school is haunted by a grave robber who once protected him from a prison term."@en
  • "Fine atmospheric 19th century thriller about a grave robber who supplies corpses to research scientists."@en
  • "A classic thriller from the story by Robert Louis Stevenson. A doctor is forced to deal with the evil grave robber who supplies corpses for research scientists."@en
  • "A cab driver in mid-19th century Edinburgh earns extra money by supplying corpses to a prestigious medical professor. Blackmail and murder round out this story of psychological terror."@en
  • "Feature film from the USA. Horror. Edinburgh anatomy lecturer Dr MacFarlane receives fresh corpses to study, stolen from the graveyard by cabman John Gray. When more bodies are required, however, Gray turns to murder, much to the alarm of MacFarlane's assistant Donald Fettes."@en
  • "Atmospheric horror film based on a Robert Louis Stevenson short story. Set in Edinburgh of 1831, a gifted doctor who runs a medical school is haunted by a grave robber who once protected him from a prison term. Also available on 'The Val Lewton Collection' LD."
  • "A surgeon and teacher of anatomy needs fresh cadavers for classroom demonstrations and pays a sinister cabman to supply them. When the cemeteries become more closely guarded, the cabman turns to other means to provide the bodies."@en
  • "A surgeon and teacher of anatomy needs fresh cadavers for classroom demonstrations and pays a sinister cabman to supply them. When the cemeteries become more closely guarded, the cabman turns to other means to provide the bodies."
  • "Fine atmospheric 19th century thriller about a grave robber who supplies corpses to a medical research scientist."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Horror films and programs"
  • "Fantastique / SF"
  • "Features"
  • "fiction"

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  • "The Body Snatcher"
  • "The Body snatcher"@en
  • "The Body snatcher = Le Récupérateur de cadavres"
  • "The body snatcher"@en
  • "The body snatcher"@it
  • "The body snatcher"