Do You Know This Voice?

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public phone box. Though her recollection is vague, she volunteers to act as bait for the killer telling the press that she had seen the kidnapper’s face and she waits for him to attack.

The Greed of William Hart

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their own supply, a plan that proves profitable when they stick to vagrants, prostitutes and drunkards. But when they poison likable Jamie, the townsfolk retaliate. NB: This film was originally written to be about Burke and Hare, but after it was completed, the British censors refused to allow its release on the grounds those names themselves were offensive; thus the entire soundtrack was recut so that new names – Hart and Moore – recorded by the film’s actors, were cut into the previously recorded lines, replacing the offending “Burke” or “Hare”, sentence by sentence.

Arnold Bell – MRQE

Do You Know This Voice?

The Greed of William Hart