Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
Acting
Cushing's Knox—prickly genius who sees people as specimens
Acting
Pleasence's Hare: weaselly, pathetic, weirdly magnetic
Director
John Gilling
Peter Cushing
Dr. Robert Knox
Donald Pleasence
William Hare
George Rose
William Burke
June Laverick
Martha Knox
Renée Houston
Helen Burke
Dermot Walsh
Dr. Geoffrey Mitchell
Billie Whitelaw
Mary Patterson
John Cairney
Chris Jackson
Melvyn Hayes
Daft Jamie
Andrew Faulds
Inspector McCulloch
George Woodbridge
Dr. Ferguson
Esma Cannon
Aggie
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