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Released
1945 · FILM

The Body Snatcher

GRAVES RAIDED! COFFINS ROBBED! CORPSES CARVED! MIDNIGHT MURDER! BODY BLACKMAIL! STALKING GHOULS! Mad Thrills of Terror And Macabre Mystery... –and don't blame us if you stay awake all night!

Directed by
Runtime
78 min
HorrorThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

In Edinburgh in 1831, Gray, who appears to be a cab driver, is involved in the illegal trade of grave robbing. A former medical student, he was previously convicted of the same crime. Gray harbors a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane, who managed to avoid detection and punishment for his own involvement.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by J R WhittredgeShot by Robert De GrasseScored by Roy Webb

Box Office

1945 · Box office

Produced on a $125K budget

Production budget

$125K

Also known as

  • Der Leichendiebde
  • Le Récupérateur de cadavresfr
  • La iena - L'uomo di mezzanotteit
  • La Jena - L'uomo di mezzanotteit

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