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Murder | Serial Killer
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1986 | Freddie
At thirty-two years, this holds the world record for the longest delay between the completion of the script, and the making of the movie.
Dr. Thomas Rock is based on Dr. Robert Knox. Rock is played in this movie by Timothy Dalton. In real-life, Dr. Knox's association with the Burke and Hare murders damaged his reputation and ruined his career.
Dylan Thomas' screenplay was written in the 1940s, but plans to film it fell through. His screenplay was published shortly after his death in 1953. The script attracted the attention of Director Nicholas Ray in the mid 1960s, although it was elaborately re-written to transfer the action from Scotland to Vienna. Ray announced that he would make the film in Belgrade, with Maximilian Schell and Susannah York, but the production was abandoned before shooting began. The project was inactive for another twenty years.
Second Victorian medical history movie produced by Brooksfilms. The first was The Elephant Man (1980).
The Burke and Hare murders, on which this movie was based, were based on fact, and were a true story. The Burke and Hare (William Burke and William Hare) characters in this movie, are known instead as Robert Fallon and Timothy Broom. The legendary Burke and Hare murders are also known as the West Port murders. The total number of deaths amounted to seventeen.
"Doctor Thomas Rock: I don't need any friends, I prefer enemies. They're better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine."
"[First lines] Doctor Thomas Rock: I stand before you, gentlemen, as a lecturer in anatomy, a scientist, a specialist, a material man to whom the heart, for instance, is an elaborate phusical organ and not the seat of love. A man to whom the soul, because it has no shape, does not exist. But paradox is inherent in all dogma, so I stand before you also as a man of sentiment. And it is in my dual capacity as scientist and sociologist, materialist and moralist, anatomist and artist, that I intend to conduct my lectures. To expound, inform, illustrate, entertain and edify. A noble profession at whose threshold you stand as neophytes is not an end in itself. The science of anatomy contributes to the great sum of all knowledge. And I believe that all men must work towards that end. And I believe that that end justifies any means."
