The Doctor and the Devils Page #3

Synopsis: In the Nineteenth Century, the renowned professor of anatomy Dr. Thomas Rock gives classes to neophyte medicine students in the local university. Dr. Rock uses his assistant Dr. Murray to buy corpses for his experiments from body snatchers paying a little fortune for the cadavers. When the alcoholic scum Robert Fallon and Timothy Broom overhear the conversation of grave-robbers about Dr. Rock, they decide to supply fresher corpses that worth more to the doctor, killing the poor inhabitants. Dr. Murray has unrequited feelings for the cockney whore Jennie Bailey that usually hangs around with the also prostitute Alice. When Dr. Murray discovers that Fallon has just sold the corpse of Alice, he seeks out the worthless Fallon and Broom to stop them from murdering Jennie. Will he arrive in time o save Jennie?
Genre: Drama, Horror
Director(s): Freddie Francis
Production: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
0%
R
Year:
1985
93 min
1,978 Views


Bound by ridiculous laws

that shackle them?

I am only allowed, by law,

to dissect the corpses

of hanged criminals.

Do you know what my quota is

if I'm lucky? Five!

Apart from that, I have to make due

with desiccated, shriveled,

rotting cadavers that the maggots

find out more about than I ever will.

The law must be changed.

Hey, you, we've been here hours!

Nobody tells you a bloody thing

in this place.

We wanna know how Billy is!

- Billy's my brother.

- Yeah, and I'm a friend, Jennie Bailey.

Is Billy still alive?

What are they doing to him?

He's been very lucky.

He's been attended by Dr. Rock.

- Dr. Rock?

- Oh. Oh, God.

Dr. Rock's the one that cuts 'em up.

Billy's dead.

On the contrary. Dr. Rock not only saved

your brother's life, he saved his leg.

He didn't cut Billy's leg off?

But we thought for sure...

- Who are you, anyway?

- I'm Dr. Rock's assistant.

Come on, Alice, let's get out of here.

Let's go back to Pig's Lane

where we can breathe.

Thank you.

- Good evening, sir.

- Shh.

- Ms. Rock wishes to speak with you.

- Thank you, Molly.

Good evening, Thomas.

Thomas, can you spare me

a moment of your time?

A hundred, my dear Annabella.

All my time is at your disposal.

I've something important to discuss.

I'm arranging a small

dinner party for you.

For me?

It may very well be the last,

if what I hear in the city is true.

I smell vinegar in here tonight.

Will you look at these invitations?

Because I may have forgotten someone.

A fortunate someone.

There's no need to be contemptuous

of the celebration

that's been planned in your own honor.

I hear the medical faculty's

going to investigate you.

Your whole professional life

may be at stake.

Look, why aren't

Dr. and Mrs. Gordon invited?

Mrs. Gordon won't sit at table with her.

- My wife.

- I could never understand

why you didn't keep that girl

somewhere as your mistress,

instead of bringing her here to this house,

legalizing your shabby amours.

No self-respecting person would be

willing to sit in the presence

of a woman who draws

those... vile,

obscene drawings.

Elizabeth works for me

under my instructions.

They're filthy, disgusting.

Thomas.

Is this the place

where I can see nude drawings?

You've been speaking to your sister.

Now you're losing your temper again.

No. Society has been losing

its temper with me.

Society? That's a lot of people.

Be careful. They're your friends.

I don't need any friends. I prefer enemies.

They're better company, and their feelings

toward you are always genuine.

Thomas, don't be angry.

Thomas, what is it?

Have I drawn something incorrectly?

No.

It's just that it reminds me

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914. An undistinguished pupil, he left school at 16 and became a journalist for a short time. Many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager; however, it was the publication in 1934 of "Light breaks where no sun shines" that caught the attention of the literary world. While living in London, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara, whom he married in 1937. Their relationship was defined by alcoholism and was mutually destructive. In the early part of their marriage, Thomas and his family lived hand-to-mouth; they settled in the Welsh fishing village of Laugharne. Thomas came to be appreciated as a popular poet during his lifetime, though he found earning a living as a writer difficult. He began augmenting his income with reading tours and radio broadcasts. His radio recordings for the BBC during the late 1940s brought him to the public's attention, and he was frequently used by the BBC as a populist voice of the literary scene. Thomas first travelled to the United States in the 1950s. His readings there brought him a degree of fame, while his erratic behaviour and drinking worsened. His time in America cemented his legend, however, and he went on to record to vinyl such works as A Child's Christmas in Wales. During his fourth trip to New York in 1953, Thomas became gravely ill and fell into a coma, from which he never recovered. He died on 9 November 1953. His body was returned to Wales, where he was interred at the village churchyard in Laugharne on 25 November 1953. Although Thomas wrote exclusively in the English language, he has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century. He is noted for his original, rhythmic and ingenious use of words and imagery. His position as one of the great modern poets has been much discussed, and he remains popular with the public. more…

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