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The McGregor Affair

  
     
 
 
     
 

 
     
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Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 23.11.64

Filmlänge: 48 Min. 25 Sek.

Drehbuch: David Friedkin und Morton Fine nach einer Geschichte von Sidney Rowland

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Regie: David Friedkin

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Darsteller: Andrew Duggan (John McGregor), Elsa Lanchester (Aggie McGregor), Michael Pate (Hare), Arthur Malet (Burke), John Hoyt (Dr. Knox), William Smith (Tommy Lad).

Inhaltsangabe: During the year 1827 in Edinburgh, Scotland, John McGregor must take care od his alcoholic wife Aggie. He works for Dr. Knox and must lug large boxes of tanbark to his medical academy. When John learns that the boxes actually contain the murdered victims of two bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, he decides to get rid of his wife by getting her drunk and leaving her on the body snatcher's doorstep. The plan is successful, but John is overtaken by remorse. Unfortunately, he ends up to be Burke and Hare's next victim.

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