The Body Snatcher (1945)

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Country: USA
Genres: Horror, Thriller
Release: 1945-06-25
Director: Robert Wise (I) (1914–2005)
Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson , Philip MacDonald , Val Lewton
Language: English
Stars: Boris Karloff , Bela Lugosi , Henry Daniell , Edith Atwater , Russell Wade , Rita Corday , Sharyn Moffett , Donna Lee , Ted Billings , Bobby Burns
Runtime: 78 min
Awards: 3 nominations
AKA: Le récupérateur de cadavres (France, French Republic) , De graf roover (Belgium) , La iena - L'uomo di mezzanotte (Italy) , Els lladres de cossos (Spain) , The Body Snatcher , Pahan vallassa (Finland) , Похитители тел , Porywacz ciał (Poland) , The Body Snatcher (Australia) , El ladrón de cadáveres (Spain) , El ladrón de cuerpos (Spain) , Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher (United States of America) , Le voleur de cadavres (Belgium) , El profanador de tumbas (Venezuela) , Der Leichendieb (Germany) , El profanador de tumbas (Argentina) , I ekdikisis tou nekrou (Greece) , 死体を売る男 (Japan) , The Body Snatcher (United Kingdom) , The Body Snatcher (Canada) , A hullarabló (Hungary) , The Body Snatcher (United States of America) , El profanador de tumbas (Mexico) , Der Leichendieb , Robert Louis Stevenson's Der Leichendieb (Germany) , The Body Snatcher (India) , La jena: L'uomo di mezzanotte (Italy) , Крадецът на трупове (Bulgaria) , Gravplundraren (Sweden) , Hoţul de cadavre (Romania) , Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher (United Kingdom) , O Túmulo Vazio (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Hotii de trupuri (Romania) , Ruumiinsieppaajat (Finland) , O Túmulo Vazio (Brazil) , Yeraltı canavarı (Turkey) , Η εκδίκησις του νεκρού (Greece) , La jena (Italy)
Plot: In Edinburgh in 1831, Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane runs a medical school where Donald Fettes is a student. Fettes is interested in helping a young girl who has lost the use of her legs. He is certain that MacFarlane's surgical skills could be put to great use but he is reluctant to do so. The good Dr. MacFarlane has a secret that soon becomes all too obvious to young Fettes, who has only recently been promoted as his assistant: he has been paying a local cabbie, John Gray, to supply him with dead bodies for anatomical research. Gray constantly harasses MacFarlane and clearly has a hold over him dating to a famous trial many years before where Gray refused to identify the man for whom he was robbing graves. Fettes isn't aware of any of this but soon realizes exactly how Gray obtains the bodies they use in their anatomy classes.
IMDB:tt0037549