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The Greed of William Hart is a British film of genre Horror released in USA on 1 january 1953 with Tod Slaughter
The Greed of William Hart (1948)
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Add to a movie listThe Greed of William Hart is a 1948 British crime film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Aubrey Woods, Patrick Addison, Jenny Lynn, Winifred Melville and Arnold Bell. The film depicts two Edinburgh bodysnatchers closely modeled on the real Burke and Hare.
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In 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland, two Irish immigrants, Mr. Hart (Tod Slaughter) and Mr. Moore (Henry Oscar), take up murdering the locals and selling their bodies to the local medical school, which needs fresh bodies for anatomy lectures and demonstrations. When a young woman goes missing, medical student Hugh Alston (Patrick Addison) suspects the two are involved in foul play, but the arrogant, amoral Dr. Cox (Arnold Bell) --the main buyer for the bodies-- attempts to hinder his investigation. Meanwhile, the murderous duo set their sights on eccentric local boy "Daft Jamie" (Aubrey Woods) and an old woman.Actors
Tod Slaughter
(William Hart)
Henry Oscar
(Mr. Moore)
Aubrey Woods
(Jamie Wilson)
Dennis Wyndham
(Sergeant Fisher)
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