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The Flesh and the Fiends

BBC One
on BBC One London

Horror starring
Peter Cushing
Donald Pleasence
In 1820s Edinburgh, Dr Robert Knox 's macabre trade in dead bodies shocks his colleagues and prompts rogues Burke and Hare to embark upon murder.
Director John Gilling (1959)
Black and white
* See Films: pages 50-58 ***
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Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Cushing
Unknown:
Donald Pleasence
Unknown:
Dr Robert Knox
Director:
John Gilling
Dr Robert Knox:
Peter Cushing
William Hare:
Donald Pleasence
Martha:
June Laverick
William Burke:
George Rose
Dr Geoffrey Mitchell:
Dermot Walsh
Helen Burke:
Renee Houston
Mary Patterson:
Billie Whitelaw
Source: Radio Times

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