The Body Snatcher
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
The Body Snatcher (1945, USA) is a Horror film directed by Robert Wise.
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- Featured in: The Val Lewton Horror Collection
Main Details
- Released in 1945
- B&W
- Running time: 78 minutes
- Production and Distribution Co.: RKO Radio Pictures
- Directed by Robert Wise
- Written by Philip MacDonald and Val Lewton, from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel
- Starring; Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
Plot Summary
- A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
Taglines
- INVADED!...the sanctuary of the Dead!...by the Hero of Horror!...and the Master of Menace!
- No punches pulled...No details hidden...No facts sugar-coated in this startling and horrific expose of the methods used by surgeons years ago to get bodies for dissection!
- The Screen's Last Word in Shock Sensation!
- Not Hollywood Bunk - But Dramatized From Unthinkable FACTS of Record!
- Foul Traffic in Dead Bodies.
- Foul Fingers Crimson with Dead Men's Blood!
