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Derren Nesbitt (Actor), Harry Andrews (Actor), Vernon Sewell (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce, Françoise Pascal
  • Directors: Vernon Sewell
  • Format: Dolby, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Odeon Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 4 May 2015
  • Run Time: 107 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00TQQHIR2
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Vernon Sewell (The Blood Beast Terror) directs this Hammeresque horror on the early days of anatomy, when the need for fresh corpses led to a series of murders in Edinburgh. When the villainous grave robbers Burke and Hare realise that demand for corpses is outstripping supply, they decide to take matters into their own hands and prey on drunken prostitutes in the brothels and alleyways of Victorian Edinburgh. Derren Nesbit, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce and Francoise Pascal star in this seminal British shocker. Extras include interviews with cast and crew members, including Francoise Pascal and Derren Nesbitt.

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3.0 out of 5 starsGood film, let down by the music
By P. Hanson on 6 April 2009
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Burke & Hare (1971) will really only appeal to those who appreciate low-budget British horror films of the 70's. If you want to learn about the crimes committed by these two men then there are better films available than this one. This film does stick closely to the actual events, though parts of the story have been omitted.

1820's Edinburgh is presented as a city whose inhabitants are either wealthy or impoverished. Rich men wear expensive clothes and visit high-class brothels, while the poor are reduced to begging for pennies and shovelling up horse manure. Burke and Hare aren't portrayed as evil monsters, but as hard-up immoral men driven by their greed for money and want of a better life.

For a low-budget film Burke and Hare actually stands up well compared with other similar films of the time. The costumes and sets are very good (though nowhere close to what Hammer were capable of in the early 70's). The actors all turn in fine performances with no one letting the side down. Highlights include a scene where elderly doctors exchange amusing stories about their patients over dinner. There's some enjoyable scenes set in a brothel featuring a bevy of incredibly attractive young ladies. And there's some particularly impressive black humour such as "Show a little respect for the dead man, and get yer arse off the coffin!".

What really lets this film down is the music. The film opens with a totally inappropriate upbeat, Chas & Dave-style, Cockney knees up theme tune (complete with lyrics such as: Burke and Hare, Beware of them, Burke and Hare, The pair of `em, Out to snatch, Your body from you!). The film is also peppered with Carry On-style incidental music that completely ruins the atmosphere.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsthis is because of a very irritating and very noticeable strobe effect to the picture in a few scenes where the picture starts t
By MICHAELM on 19 May 2015
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
Burke and hare arrives on blu ray from odeon entertainment with a problematic blu ray transfer that is somewhat distracting to watch in certain scenes, this is because of a very irritating and very noticeable strobe effect to the picture in a few scenes where the picture starts to flash with a purplish tint that is really annoying and happens in quite a few scenes and it ruins an otherwise decent transfer.
I have looked at reviews for the region a locked us transfer of this film and apparently that release is also plagued by the same problem. Like I said, it is distracting but, the transfer is otherwise very good and a massive step up from the previous dvd release. Just be aware of this issue before you purchase this blu ray, some people might not find the strobe effect on the picture a big issue but,i certainly did, as it kind of ruined my enjoyment of the film.
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2.0 out of 5 starsConfessions of a Resurrectionist
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 24 Feb. 2013
Format: Blu-ray
1972's Burke and Hare is a schizophrenic British exploitation film that can't seem to make up its mind whether it's a comedy about the infamous suppliers of fresh - very fresh - cadavers to 19th Century Scottish surgeons or a sex comedy set in a brothel where a young medical student (Robin Tucker) falls in love with the new girl (Francoise Pascal), a kind of Confessions of a Resurrectionist or Carry On Snatching. It takes ages for the two plot strands to collide, giving the feeling of producer Guido Cohen cutting his losses and combining two half-completed scripts and topping it off with a pre-Chas'n'Dave pub singalong title song from The Scaffold ("They'll find you - they're behind you!/Take care, they're out to rape you/They're out to drape you/With white"). Most of Cohen's movies were quota quickies, the kind of uninspired fare aimed at the bottom half of a double-bill to fulfil UK cinemas' legal obligation to show a set percentage of British films each year, and while Burke and Hare was the lead attraction this time round and has somewhat more decent production values than you'd expect despite the obviously low budget, it still has the feel of something you sit through while you're waiting for the picture you really came to see start.

Derren Nesbitt, the only Thunderbird puppet to make a go of a live-action career before unfortunately mistaking his wife for a whipping post made him unemployable outside of soft porn for much of the 70s, and Glynn `Dave the barman off of Minder' Edwards are the two Irish immigrants in Edinburgh who stumble accidentally into the body selling business when a lodger dies without paying his rent and no-one seems interested in claiming his body.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBURKE & HARE [1972] [Blu-ray]
By Amazon Customer on 5 July 2015
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
BURKE & HARE [1972] [Blu-ray] The Pimps and the Prostitutes and the Body-Snatchers! The Brothels and Dens of iniquity!

Vernon Sewell [‘The Blood Beast Terror’] directs this Hammeresque horror on the early days of anatomy, when the need for fresh corpses led to a series of murders in Edinburgh.

When the villainous grave robbers Burke and Hare realise that demand for corpses is outstripping supply, they decide to take matters into their own hands and prey on drunken prostitutes in the brothels and alleyways of Victorian Edinburgh. Derren Nesbit, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce and Francoise Pascal star in this seminal British shocker. Extras include interviews with cast and crew members, Françoise Pascal and Derren Nesbitt.

FILM FACT: The eponymous theme song, which opens and closes the film, was written by Roger Webb with lyrics by Norman Newell and performed by the English comedy/musical trio The Scaffold.

Cast: Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce, Françoise Pascal, Yutte Stensgaard, Robin Hawdon, Alan Tucker, Dee Shenderey, Joan Carol, Paul Greaves, David Pugh, James Hayter, Thomas Heathcote and Duncan Lamont

Director: Vernon Sewell

Producer: Guido Coen

Screenplay: Ernle Bradford

Composer: Roger Webb

Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson

Video Resolution: 1080p

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Audio: English: 2.0 LPMC Audio Stereo

Subtitles: None

Running Time: 94 minutes

Region: All Regions

Number of discs: 1

Studio: Odeon Entertainment

Andrew’s Blu-ray Review: A dark comedy thriller about the infamous 19th century body snatchers.Read more ›
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