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Horror Double Bill: The Body Snatcher

on BBC Two England

starring
Boris Karloff
Henry Daniell , Bela Lugosi
Boris Karloff is at his sinister best in Val Lewton 's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson 's macabre tale about grave-robbing in 19th-century Edinburgh. Henry Daniell is the unfortunate Dr MacFarlane who falls under the evil domination of Gray, a procurer of cadavers for dissection. Bela Lugosi is also on hand as Gray's blackmailing assistant and this was the last appearance together of these two grandmasters of screen horror.
Screenplay by PHILIP MACDONALD , CARLOS KEITH Produced by VAL LEWTON Directed by ROBERT WISE
. Films: page 13 and at 11.40
Theatre of Blood starring
Someone is killing the leading theatre critics of London in a peculiarly hideous way. Each death, bizarrely, parodies a death in a separate Shakespeare play. The police are baffled. Surely the only person with a grudge of such magnitude is ham Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart , and he committed suicide years ago ... Vincent Price excels in the role of the hand of vengeance in this stylish British chiller. ,
Screenplay by ANTHONY GREVlLLE-BELL Based on an original idea by STANLEY MANN and JOHN KOHN
Produced by JOHN KOHN and STANLEY MANN Directed by DOUGLAS HICKOX Films, page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
Boris Karloff
Unknown:
Henry Daniell
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Bela Lugosi
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Boris Karloff
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Val Lewton
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown:
Bela Lugosi
Unknown:
Philip MacDonald
Unknown:
Carlos Keith
Produced By:
Val Lewton
Directed By:
Robert Wise
Unknown:
Edward Lionheart
Play By:
Anthony Grevllle-Bell
Unknown:
Stanley Mann
Unknown:
John Kohn
Produced By:
John Kohn
Unknown:
Stanley Mann
Directed By:
Douglas Hickox
Gray:
Boris Karloff
Joseph:
Bela Lugosi
MacFarlane:
Henry Daniell
Meg:
Edith Atwater
Fettes:
Russell Wade
Mrs Marsh:
Rita Corday
Georgina:
Sharyn Moffett
Street singer:
Donna Lee
Richardson:
Robert Clarke
Gilchrist:
Carl Kent
Boy:
Jack Welch
Salesman:
Larry Wheat
Mrs Mary McBride:
Mary Gordon
Horse trader:
Jim Moran
Maid:
Ina Constant
Edward Lionheart:
Vincent Price
Edwina Lionheart:
Diana Rigg
Peregrine Devlin:
Ian Hendry
Trevor Dickman:
Harry Andrews
Miss Chloe Moon:
Coral Browne
Oliver Larding:
Robert Coote
Solomon Psaltery:
Jack Hawkins
George Maxwell:
Michael Hordern
Horace Sprout:
Arthur Lowe
Meredith Merridrew:
Robert Morley
Hector Snipe:
Dennis Price
Inspector Boot:
Milo O'Shea
Sergeant Dogge:
Eric Sykes
Rosemary:
Madeline Smith
Maisie Psaltery:
Diana Dors
Mrs Sprout:
Joan Hickson
Mrs Maxwell:
Renee Asherson
Policeman:
Bunny Reed
Policeman:
Peter Thorxton
Vicar:
Charles Sinnickson
Maid:
Brigid Erin Bates

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