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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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- 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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  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 ...