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San Francisco Chronicle, May 16, 1945
The New York Times, May 26, 1945
THE SCREEN
By BOSLEY CROWTHER
There was eerie business on the screen of the Rialto Theatre yesterday, where “The Body Snatcher” held forth. This new gloom-lodger, though not as nerve-parlyzing as the performers might lead you to expect, has enough suspense and atmospheric terror to make it one of the better of its genre. Boris Karloff, sporting a days-old beard, is in there pitching with ghoulish delight as an Edinburgh cabbie, circa 1830, whose hobby is snatching people out of their graves, and Bela Lugosi, surprisingly unsinister for a change, works industriously to achieve fame as a blackmailer.
A long time ago Robert Louis Stevenson supplied the plot in a short story about the difficulties medical men had in procuring cadavers for scientific study, and RKO has taken the exhumation up from there for less noble purposes. “The Body Snatcher” is certainly not the most exciting “chiller-drama”—the Rialto has often done much better—but it is somewhat more credible than most and manages to hold its own with nary a werewolf or vampire! But then, with Karloff on the prowl, what chance would a blood-thirsty hobgoblin stand?
At the Rialto
THE BODY SNATCHER; written for the screen by Philip MacDonald and Carlos Keith; based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson; directed by Robert Wise; produced by Val Lewton for RKO-Radio Pictures.
Gray . . . . . Boris Karloff
Joseph . . . . . Bela Lugosi
MacFarlane . . . . . Henry Daniell
Meg . . . . . Edith Atwater
Fettes . . . . . Russell Wade
Mrs. Marsh . . . . . Rita Corday
Georgina . . . . . Sharyn Moffett
Street Singer . . . . . Donna Lee
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Springfield Republican, June 6, 1945
Boston Herald. June 8, 1945
Dallas Morning News, June 12, 1945
Idaho Statesman, June 16, 1945
Showman’s Trade Review, June 23 1945
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Advocate, August 7, 1945
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The San Diego Union, August 21, 1945
The Spokesman-Review, September 1, 1945
The Daily Times, September 19, 1945
The Daily Times, September 21, 1945
Spokane Daily Chronicle, October 6, 1945
Motion Picture Herald, December 1, 1945
Tombstones and coffins on marquee of the Globe theatre, Bridgeport, Conn, gave atmospheric touch to manager A. L. Domain’s Hallowe’en program.
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Daily Illinois State Journal, April 12, 1946
Times Daily, April 18, 1946
Yale Daily News no. 124, March 13, 1947
Yale Daily News no. 125, March 14, 1947
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Yale Daily News no. 130, March 20, 1947
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Yale Daily News no. 35, October 30, 1947
Yale Daily News no. 143, May 13, 1957
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The Body Snatcher 1952 Re-release Banner
Italian 1980s Re-release 2 Foglio
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1952 Re-release Lobby Cards
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