Chilling Secrets Unveiled: The Body Snatcher (1945) Review

Welcome to Mindset Movie Reviews! This is my review for The Body Snatcher (1945) Plot: 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. Title: The Body Snatcher Year: 1945 Director: Robert Wise Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip MacDonald, Val Lewton Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade Genres: Thriller, Horror MPAA Rating: Approved Language: English Country: United States Awards: 3 nominations total Released: Monday, 25 June 1945 Runtime: 78 mins Metascore: 74 IMDb Rating: 7.3 (11,289 votes) IMDb Link: www.imdb.com/title/tt0037549/ 00:00 - Intro 00:06 - Review 04:29 - Outro I give The Body Snatcher (1945) three and a half stars out of five stars. If you've enjoyed this content, please like and subscribe!