THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Bela Lugosi
Edith Atwater, Russell Wade, Rita Corday
Karloff has a jolly good time as a coachman who moonlights as a grave robber in this atmospheric adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson tale. Henry Daniell is the doctor whose need for fresh corpses keeps Boris in business, and Lugosi skulks around the lab as the caretaker who cleans up after the anatomy lessons are done. When you see Karloff's shadow heading into a cemetery where a cute little dog is guarding its master's newly dug grave, you know it's lights out for the dog.
