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With: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade, Rita Corday, Sharyn Moffett, Donna Lee
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Written by: Philip MacDonald, Carlos Keith (a.k.a. Val Lewton), based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Directed by: Robert Wise
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 77
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Date: 05/24/1945
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Corpse of Action
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's short story, The Body Snatcher marks the last onscreen teaming of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, though Karloff has by far the bigger and showier role. Karloff plays Cabman John Gray, a sinister agent who delivers corpses to Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane (Henry Daniell) for use in his classroom, until MacFarlane realizes something fishy is going on. This is the most elegant andleisurely of the Val Lewton horror films, up until the whopper of an ending! Lewton himself co-write the script under the pseudonym "Carlos Keith."
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