Horror drama starring Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee. A London surgeon works to develop anaesthetics in the days when medical treatment was primitive and hospitals resembled torture chambers. But a demonstration of his "gas" goes badly wrong.
In this robust horror yarn, compassionate surgeon Boris Karloff is forced to sign false death certificates when he gets involved with two loathsome grave robbers (Christopher Lee and Francis de Wolff) during his work on an experimental anaesthetic. Boasting beautiful black-and-white photography, this 19th-century-set tale has a great combination of gas-lit melodrama, pseudo-historic science and body-snatcher gruesomeness. Director Robert Day's picture is reminiscent of Hogarth and marked the first time Karloff and Lee worked together.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Dr Bolton | Boris Karloff |
| Susan | Betta St John |
| Resurrection Joe | Christopher Lee |
| Supt Matheson | Finlay Currie |
| Rachel | Adrienne Corri |
| Black Ben | Francis De Wolff |
| Jonathan Bolton | Francis Matthews |
| Blount | Frank Pettingell |
| Chairman | Basil Dignam |
| Mrs Matheson | Marian Spencer |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Robert Day |
