Main Cast: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, Dermot Walsh, Renee Houston
Release Year: 1960
Country: UK
Run Time: 87 minutes
Plot
Mania is the venerable Burke and Hare story, previously cinematized by producer Val Lewton as The Body Snatcher. Peter Cushing plays a respectable 19th-century Edinburgh doctor who needs fresh cadavers in order to continue his crucial research. Since the exhuming of bodies for medical purposes is illegal, Lee must rely upon grave-robbers George Rose and Donald Pleasance for his corpse supply. What Lee doesn't know is that Rose and Pleasance frequently cut out the middleman by "creating" their own corpses. The good doctor catches on when the latest cadaver turns out to be his own fiancee. Its excessively violent climax has prevented Mania from being shown completely intact on commercial television. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
George Rose - William Burke; Billie Whitelaw - Mary Patterson; John Cairney - Chris Jackson; Melvyn Hayes - Daft Jamie; Geoffrey Tyrrell - Old Davey; Beckett Bould - Old Angus; George Bishop - Blind Man; George Woodbridge - Dr. Ferguson; Philip Leaver - Dr. Elliott; John Rae - Rev. Lincoln; Esma Cannon - Aggie; Raf dela Torre - Baxter; Michael Balfour - Drunken Sailor; George Street - Barman; Michael Mulcaster - Undertaker; Jack McNaughton - Stallholder; Andrew Faulds - Inspector McCulloch
Credit
John Elphick - Art Director, John Gilling - Director, Jack Slade - Editor, Stanley Black - Composer (Music Score), Monty Berman - Cinematographer, Robert S. Baker - Producer, Monty Berman - Producer, John Gilling - Screenwriter, Leon Griffiths - Screenwriter
The Flesh and the Fiends (US title Mania) is a 1960horror film starring Peter Cushing as a medical doctor who purchases human corpses for research from an obliging pair named Burke and Hare.
