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1972

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Set in Edinburgh Burke (Nesbitt) & Hare (Edwards) embark on the profitable enterprise of supplying the dead bodies of lodgers from the poorhouse to the medical pioneer Dr Knox (Andrews). As the supply of corpses dries up and driven by their money grabbing wives the pair move onto murder in order to maintain their income. Dr. .. Read more

Starring	Derren Nesbitt, Glynn Edwards, Harry Andrews
Director	Vernon Sewell
Genres	Drama

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Burke And Hare

Starring	Derren Nesbitt, Glynn Edwards, Harry Andrews
Director	Vernon Sewell
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1972 To Rent: DVD: 16 Mar 2009

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- Vacillating between melodrama and bathos, this moves uneasily from one unfulfilled promise to another, dogged from... read more on Time Out
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  This just doesn't work, and I wonder whether or not the director didn't somehow lose control of it. It's an obvious cheapie, not good for a period ... read more »
  
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Aykroyd joins Burke & Hare film
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Dan Aykroyd has signed on to join Simon Pegg, Bill Nighy and former Dr. Who David Tennant in a new film about graverobbers William Burke and William Hare. Casting has yet to be finalised, but Pegg will play Burke in the John Landis movie. Burke and Hare earned notoriety in the 19th century for digging up the dead and selling off cadavers to medical schools. Read more
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  Set in Edinburgh Burke (Nesbitt) & Hare (Edwards) embark on the profitable enterprise of supplying the dead bodies of lodgers from the poorhouse to the medical pioneer Dr Knox (Andrews). As the supply of corpses dries up and driven by their money grabbing wives the pair move onto murder in order to ...