The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)

Directors

John Gilling

Cast

Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose, June Laverick, Renee Houston, Dermot Walsh

The story

In 1828 Edinburgh, Dr Robert Knox is a highly skilled anatomist who draws large crowds of medical students to his lectures on the human body. Though he is constantly at odds with his stuffy, backwards colleagues, he is highly venerated by his students and believes it is his duty is to push the medical profession forward. Unfortunately, due to the era's laws, very few cadavers are legally available to the medical profession.

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