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The Body Snatcher (1945), is a horror film directed by Robert Wise based on the short story The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film's producer Val Lewton helped adapt the story for the screen, writing under the pen name of "Carlos Keith". The film was marketed with the tagline The screen's last word in shock sensation!.
The setting is Edinburgh in 1831 (one year before the Anatomy Act was passed).
The plot is about a surgeon who hires a cabman to dig up graves to provide him with...
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- The Screen's Last Word in Shock Sensation!
- Not Hollywood Bunk - But Dramatized From Unthinkable FACTS of Record!
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