The Flesh and the Fiends
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title:
The Flesh and the Fiends
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The Flesh and the Fiends is a 1960 British horror film directed by John Gilling and starring Peter Cushing, June Laverick and Donald Pleasence. It was written by John Gilling and Leon Griffiths. 19th-century medical doctor Robert Knox purchases human corpses for research from a murderous pair named Burke and Hare. The film is based on the true case of Burke and Hare, who murdered at least 16 people in 1828 Edinburgh and sold their bodies for anatomical research.
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1960 British film by John Gilling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flesh_and_the_Fiends
date created:
2009-01-13T05:51:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T12:36:17Z
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