BODY SNATCHER MOVIE CAST - LOBBY CARD UNSIGNED (MEX) 1954 - HFSID 259999
Price: $100.00
THE BODY SNATCHER. Mexican Lobby card unsigned. Color,
15¾x11¾. Promotion for the 1954 film, The Body Snatcher. In the
Val Lewton-produced The Body Snatcher the film's protagonist is played by
Henry Daniell. A brilliant 18th century London surgeon, Daniell can only make
his humanitarian medical advances by experimenting on cadavers, which is
strictly illegal. Boris Karloff plays a Uriah Heep-type cabman who is secretly a
grave robber, providing corpses for Daniell's research. The low-born Karloff
enjoys blackmailing the aristocratic Daniell into silence; the two actors'
cat-and-mouse scenes are among the film's highlights. Eventually, Karloff turns
to murder to supply fresh bodies to Daniell. The doctor can stand no more of
this, and kills Karloff. But though Daniell may be able to escape the law, he
cannot escape his conscience, which manifests itself in the voice of the dead
Karloff, whose repeated mantra "NEVER get rid of me! NEVER get rid of me!"
drives Daniell to his death. The Body Snatcher was based on a story by
Robert Louis Stevenson, which in turn was inspired by the homicidal career of
notorious grave-robbers Burke and Hare. Slightly creased at corners. Fine
condition.
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