BURKE & HARE
The pimps and the prostitutes and the body-snatchers. The brothels and dens of iniquity.
Two of the most notorious figures in the history of medicine, William Burke and William Hare were a pair of enterprising street thugs who provided anatomical specimens to the Edinburgh Medical College—often by robbing the graves of the recently dead, sometimes through even more nefarious methods.
About This Film
In Edinburgh, in 1828, surgeon Dr Knox (Harry Andrews) employs graverobbers Burke and Hare (Derren Nesbitt and Glynn Edwards) to supply fresh corpses for his anatomical lectures at the medical academy. When graveyard supplies run low, the industrious pair turn to murder to keep the business going.
Film Details
Director
Vernon Sewell
Writer
Ernle Bradford
