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2020

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	The flesh and the fiends / director, John Gilling.
Edition:	Special edition.
Publisher, Date:	[United States] : Kino Lorber, [2020]
Description:	1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video
Summary:	Edinburgh, 1827. Irish immigrants Burke and Hare hit upon the idea of selling the bodies of the recently deceased to eminent surgeon Dr. Robert Knox. Dr. Knox, knowing that experimental vivisection is the only way for medicine to make progress, forms an uneasy alliance with the self-styled body snatchers. When Burke and Hares' supply of available corpses begins to run out, they decide to speed the process along by murdering the poor and the homeless.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: Not rated.
Series:	KL studio classics KL studio classics.
Subjects:	Human experimentation in medicine -- Drama. Dead -- Drama. Murder -- Drama.
Genre:	Feature films. Horror films.
Other Author:	Gilling, John, 1912-1985, film director. Cushing, Peter, 1913-1994, actor. Pleasence, Donald, actor. Whitelaw, Billie, 1932-2014, actor. Rose, George, 1920-1988, actor. Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.
Notes:	Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Special features: New audio commentary; alternate cut; trailers. Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, Billie Whitelaw, George Rose. DVD, wide screen. English dialogue; English subtitles.
ISBN:	9786318283298 : DVD 6318283293 : DVD
Publisher Number:	K24545
Other Number:	1157288068
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	848743
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# System items in:	1
Call Number:	DVD MOVIE Flesh an

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