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The Body Snatcher
film by Wise [1945]
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discussed in biography
- In Robert Wise: Films of the mid- to late 1940s
…during the Franco-German War, and The Body Snatcher (1945), a superior short-schedule, low-budget B-film based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story about a doctor (Henry Daniell) who hires a grave robber (Boris Karloff) to supply him with cadavers for his experiments. Like most of Wise’s films in the genre, that…
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role of Lugosi
- In Bela Lugosi
…Karloff again in the eerie The Body Snatcher (1945), and he returned to the role of Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
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