The Body Snatcher 1945 123movies

Watch: The Body Snatcher 1945 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Edinburgh in 1831, Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane runs a medical school where Donald Fettes is a student. Fettes is interested in helping a young girl who has lost the use of her legs. He is certain that MacFarlane’s surgical skills could be put to great use but he is reluctant to do so. The good Dr. MacFarlane has a secret that soon becomes all too obvious to young Fettes, who has only recently been promoted as his assistant: he has been paying a local cabbie, John Gray, to supply him with dead bodies for anatomical research. Gray constantly harasses MacFarlane and clearly has a hold over him dating to a famous trial many years before where Gray refused to identify the man for whom he was robbing graves. Fettes isn’t aware of any of this but soon realizes exactly how Gray obtains the bodies they use in their anatomy classes..
Plot: Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
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	7.3/10 Votes: 9,445
	86% | RottenTomatoes
	74/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 142 Popularity: 8.164 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Classy Old ‘Horror’ Film
As of this writing, I have seen four of the nine Val Lewton DVD Horror Collection films and this one was, by far, the best.

Henry Daniell, Boris Karloff, Edith Atwater,Russell Wade, Sharyn Moffet and Bela Lugosi all acted well. I had forgotten that Karloff was a decent actor, not just some Frankenstein monster who couldn’t deliver a line. He had a creepy voice, too, which lent itself nicely to horror films. I just found him fascinating here.

In addition, this movie had a well-known director, Robert Wise, and the story was adaption of a Robert Louis Steevenson. So, you see, this film had good bloodlines, pun intended. This was not some schlocky Ed Wood B-film. This movie is a high class affair.

I found it more of a crime story than anything else as a doctor (Daniell), trying to further his knowledge and needing human specimens (dead) to continue his research, has his graveyard supply cut off to him and then has to have his helper (Karloff) kill people to provide him the bodies. Meanwhile, a young and more moral student of the doctor, gets wind of what’s happening and doesn’t share his mentor’s view that the “ends justify the means.”

At any rate, this a keeper. Like the other Lewton films I’ve seen, it’s well- photographed, too. I can only hope a few of the five I haven’t seen yet are this good.

An all-time wonderful “terror tale”.
What makes this one of the true greats is the fact that this is not horror based upon fantastic creatures beyond belief or scientific plots to cheat death. This is based upon terrible horrors which really may have happened, as evidenced by the infamous Burke and Hare case which is mentioned here, as is the real Dr. Knox (documented in several movies). Boris Karloff is Cabman Gray, the title character, who steals bodies from graves for doctor Henry Daniell and his student Russell Wade, and eventually turning to murder. The doctor really wants to do good, but with evil Karloff around, that is going to be impossible, even though Wade is struggling to remain moral. Karloff is the most fearsome of screen monsters: he is personable, charming, and deadly, and that makes him all the more treacherous.

Val Lewton created an atmosphere as chilling as Karloff’s character to go along with. Karloff instills his complex character with many factors, kindly with a young patient he brings to Danielle at the beginning, and alternately amoral and reflective throughout. The music is haunting, and some of the minor details are major plot line points (such as the blind singing beggar girl, hauntingly played by Donna Lee). The ending is one of the most chilling ever in films.

Sadly, Bela Lugosi is badly underused in this film, his last with Karloff. It is hard to believe that the sad pathetic looking man was once Count Dracula, as well as other memorable horror characters. Daniell is very good as the morally torn doctor, with Wade sincere as his young pupil, Edith Atwater commanding as the housekeeper, and Sharyn Moffat and Rita Corday also memorable as a lame girl in need oven operation and her concerned mother.

They could not remake this film today without ruining the subtlety and sinister edge the film reveals. It is a screen masterpiece that holds up 55 years later, doing more with a haunting atmosphere than many “A” pictures of the time. Robert Wise, then a novice director, brilliantly put together the film to Lewton’s expectations, utilizing his own experience as a technician, and this ranks among his best. The sound of Karloff declaring “You’ll never get rid of me” will linger in your cinematic memory long after it’s over.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 18 min (78 min)
Budget 125000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Horror, Thriller
Director Robert Wise
Writer Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip MacDonald, Val Lewton
Actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell
Country United States
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory RKO Studio Lab, USA (uncredited)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm