BURKE & HARE (1972, intro) Derren Nesbitt

Title credit sequence of the 1972 Hammer-esque re-telling of the legendary grave robbers and the notorious Dr. Knox, featuring this bizarrely cheery and anachronistic title song from The Scaffold. Stars Derren Nesbitt, Glynn Edwards, Harry Andrews, Françoise Pascal and Yutte Stensgaard. Directed by Vernon Sewell. Released in the US as "The Horrors of Burke and Hare."

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Film & Animation

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• Derren Nesbitt
• Glynn Edwards
• Harry Andrews

[robinofgray]

They weren't "legendary grave robbers". Burke and Hare were never proven to have robbed a single grave - they were murderers.

[brujaria]

@robinofgray There are legends about them robbing graves... hence "legendary grave robbers".

[nitesho]

This is one of those films I have been trying to see for some time.

kevin

SCARLET THE FILM MAGAZINE

[brujaria]

@nitesho It has been released in a totally crap transfer by Salvation DVD. Looks like it's off 16mm and cut.

[Sparrow15]

Berkenehr. Beware ofem.

[drunkboxer]

Beware of burkenerrrr

[robinofgray]

@brujaria So if I described Joe di Maggio as "a legendary baseball player", you would take that to mean there are legends he was a baseball player? As opposed to "he was a baseball player of great renown"? Anyway, I'm not having a go at you, I just think its interesting to describe them by what they were not as opposed to what they were, and it's important to be clear they were serial killers as opposed to grave robbers.

[ISupportUmbrellas]

@eldritchowl I was! Good to know I'm not alone :D

[nitesho]

I just got a copy- not as bad as i expected -

[Notebooked]

BURKENEHRRR

Good song, though, despite the narminess.

[Cannibalnana]

sounds like it should have been on sargeant peppers...

[kjottroill]

brrrkenneeeeeerh