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Directed by. Freddie Francis. It is impossible to discover, on the evidence of "The Doctor and the Devils," why anybody connected with this movie thought it should be made. It is unredeemed, dreary, boring, gloomy dreck unilluminated by even the slightest fugitive moment of inspiration or ambition. It's an utterly depressing movie, not just ...
Roger Ebert gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four, writing, "It is impossible to discover, on the evidence of "The Doctor and the Devils," why anybody connected with this movie thought it should be made. It is unredeemed, dreary, boring, gloomy dreck unilluminated by even the slightest fugitive moment of inspiration or ambition ...
- $147,070
- John Morris
- 4 October 1985
- Jonathan Sanger
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Sep 9, 2011 · Ebert said no, and the doctor told him to come back every month for a year to see how he was doing. “At the end of the year, I hadn’t made any improvement, so he suggested seeing a counselor ...
Sep 28, 2015 · Longevity: They met a need for televised film criticism, a half-hour per week, but Ebert outlived Siskel by 14 years. "Siskel and Ebert" ultimately became "Ebert and Roeper," but after Ebert left TV, the show faltered, leaving his name the common factor. Even so, he remained prolific, continuing to work despite major health issues.
- Roger Ebert was the all-time best-known, most successful movie critic in cinema history. He reached more movie fans via television and print than...
- He was: prolific had personality was one of the first to be on TV (along with Siskel), which gave him great face-recognition talented (he Won a Pul...
- This answer will add to/repeat some of what's above. Although Roger Ebert's fame has been more enduring, they were "Siskel and Ebert" at the time...
- To the utility of having an individual's opinion included, in addition to aggregate scores: Roger Ebert is, indeed, just one man - but a man who re...
Nineteen seventy-five was a banner year for Roger Ebert. Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, he became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. And he joined a local public television movie program, "Sneak Preview," as a cohost. The show, after Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribunejoined as cohost, was shown for a time on PBS ...
Aug 20, 2008 · The Doctor and the Devils. This poetic screenplay from the 1950s raises questions, still pertinent today, about the pursuit of medical knowledge. Informed by the story of the body snatchers Burke and Hare, it tells of Dr Rock, a bright and ambitious anatomist who needs bodies to dissect. These come to be supplied, increasingly fresh, by the two ...
Released in the autumn of 1985, The Doctor and the Devils never found its audience, perhaps considered too crass by the art house crowd and not crass enough by horror moviegoers whose tastes were then being altered by the onslaught of such franchise sequels as Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, and ...
