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Hare. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen murders committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures. Edinburgh was a leading European centre of anatomical study in the early ...
Sep 9, 2011 · A black comedy film directed by John Landis, based on the true story of two 19th-century Irish immigrants who sold dead bodies to a medical school in Edinburgh. Starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson and Tim Curry, the film explores the friendship, love and morality of the notorious murderers.
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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. It was Landis's first feature film release in 12 years, the ...
On Halloween 1828 Burke and Hare’s last victim, Marjory Campbell Docherty, was invited to stay with Burke and Helen on the pretence that she was a distant relation of Burke’s mother. Burke’s other lodgers, a couple called James and Ann Gray, were invited to stay temporarily at Hare’s boarding house that evening so the murder could take ...
Burke and Hare were exposed when neighbors and police discovered their murder of a local woman on October 31, 1828. Hare turned king’s evidence and, along with his wife, Margaret Hare, testified against Burke and his wife, Helen Burke. Hare eventually was released, never to be heard from again. Burke was tried for murder, found guilty, and ...
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Burke and Hare’s final victim was Margaret Docherty, a middle-aged Irishwoman who was lured into Burke’s lodgings by the promise of a drink. While Burke’s wife, Helen McDougal, went to fetch Hare, Burke paid for two lodgers called Anne and James Gray to go and stay at Hare’s place so Docherty could be murdered away from prying eyes.
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Feb 12, 2024 · Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis star as two grave robbers who sell corpses to a medical school in 19th-century Edinburgh. The film by John Landis is a pitch-black comedy that adapts a true story of crime, ethics, and science.
