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The Flesh and
the Fiends [1959]
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1959
Running Times: 91 mins [USA]
97 mins [UK]
Format: black and white 35mm
Dyaliscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Triad Productions
Producers: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman
Production Manager: Jack Swinburne
SCRIPT
Script: John Gilling, Leo Griffiths
Story: John Gilling
DIRECTION
Director: John Gilling
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Monty Berman
Camera Operator: Chic Waterson
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Jack Slade
MUSIC
Music: Stanley Black
Conductor: Stanley Black
SOUND
Sound Recordists: Bob Jones, George Stephenson
Dubbing Editor: Jeanne Henderson
Sound System: Westrex Recording System
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jimmy Evans
Hair: Betty Sherriff
Wardrobe: Laura Nightingale
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: John Elphick
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Kay Rawlings
LOCATIONS
Studio: Shepperton Studios, Middlesex, England
CAST
Peter Cushing
[Dr Robert Knox]
June Laverick [Martha Knox]
Donald Pleasence [William Hare]
George Rose [William Burke]
Renee Houston [Helen Burke]
Dermot Walsh [Dr Geoffrey Mitchell]
Billie Whitelaw [Mary Patterson]
John Cairney [Chris Jackson]
Melvyn Hayes [Daft Jamie]
June Powell [Maggie O'Hara]
Andrew Faulds [Inspector McCulloch]
Philip Leaver [Dr Elliott]
George Woodbridge [Dr Ferguson]
Garard Green [Dr Andrews]
Esma Cannon [Aggie]
Geoffrey Tyrrell [old Davey]
George Bishop [blind man]
Beckett Bould [old Angus]
George Street [publican]
Michael Balfour [drunken sailor]
Stephen Scott, Raf De La Torre [grave robbers]
Jack McNaughton [stallholder]
Michael Mulcaster [undertaker]
John Rae [Reverend Lincoln]
SUMMARY
Edinburgh surgeon Dr Robert Knox needs fresh human bodies for research
and resorts to employing grave robbers Burke and Hare. But when the
bodies start running out, the pair resort to murder to keep Knox happy...
CAPSULE REVIEW
An under-rated British horror, rather lost in all the publicity surrounding
the contemporary Hammer releases. Cushing is on top form as Knox and
is supported by a first rate cast all of who give of their best. Gilling's
direction is spot on and the photography is wonderful.
AVAILABILITY
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Mundil Films S.A.
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Regal Films International
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Valiant Films; BijouFlix Releasing; Peacemaker
Pictures [1965 re-release]
Video Distributors: Sinister Cinema; Something Weird Video; United American
Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X
TIMELINE
1961
January
24: USA - theatrical release in Boston, Massachusetts
1962
August
6: Sweden - theatrical release
November
16: Finland - theatrical release
1971
April
11: Spain - theatrical release in Barcelona
18: Spain - theatrical release in Madrid
POSTER TAGS
Coffins Looted! Cadavers Dissected!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Der Arzt und die Teufel - German title
La carne y el demonio - Spanish title
The Fiendish Ghouls
L'impasse aux violences - French title
Le jene di Edimburgo - Italian title
Kalmankauppiaat - Finnish title
Mania - US title
Psycho Killers
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Burke and Hare
[1971]
The Doctor and
the Devils [1985]
The Greed of William
Hart [1948]
Play
of the Month: The Anatomist [1980]
The Revenge of
Frankenstein [1958]
KEYWORDS
body snatchers, bodysnatching, corpses, doctors, graves, grave robbers,
grave robbing, hanging, lecturers, mutilation, physicians, prostitutes,
revenge, students, true crime
Last Updated:
16 July, 2007
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