Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.
The story
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.
- murder
- serial killer
- cadaver
- 19th century
The bill
Timothy Dalton
Doctor Thomas Rock
Jonathan Pryce
Robert Fallon
Twiggy
Jennie Bailey
Julian Sands
Dr. Murray
- Stephen Rea — Timothy Broom
- Phyllis Logan — Elizabeth Rock
- Patrick Stewart — Prof. Macklin
- Phil Davis — Billy Bedlam
- Philip Jackson — Andrew Merry-Lees
- Beryl Reid — Mrs. Flynn
- Siân Phillips — Annabella Rock
- Nichola McAuliffe — Alice
- Lewis Fiander — Dr. Thornton
- David Bamber — Cronin
- Danny Schiller — Praying Howard
- Directed
- Freddie Francis
- Written
- Ronald Harwood
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 59 ratings
- Studio
- Brooksfilms, 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
