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Sep 9, 2011 · Burke and Hare: Directed by John Landis. With Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry. A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.
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- Comedy, Crime, History
- John Landis
- 2011-09-09
Burke & Hare is a 2010 British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Directed by John Landis from an original screenplay by Nick Moorcroft and Piers Ashworth, the film stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as William Burke and William Hare respectively.
- Piers Ashworth, Nick Moorcroft
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A movie review by James Berardinelli. The infamous tale of two 19th century Scottish murderers, William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis), might make for a dark, compelling drama. Or, with a little more focus on the gore, it could be a period piece horror movie.
- John Landis
- R
- Simon Pegg
Feb 10, 2011 · The comedy in ‘Burke and Hare’ is a great mix of slapstick, controlled buffoonery, sight gags and coinciding events. I felt it worked quite well because, strangely enough, I found the two titular characters quite likeable.
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Directed by John Landis. No Job Too Small. No Body Too Big. No Questions Asked. Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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- John Landis
Aug 7, 2011 · From Ealing Studios, Burke & Hare is a film based on a real-life string of murderers committed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the mid-nineteenth century by two Irish immigrants. William Burke and William Hare carried out their crimes for profit and to provide Edinburgh’s burgeoning medical field with corpses for dissection.
Oct 30, 2010 · It stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the Irish murderers William Burke and William Hare, who became notorious for providing corpses for Dr Knox (Tom Wilkinson) to dissect in 1828 Edinburgh.
