Doctor Blood's Coffin
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Sidney J. Furie
Kieron Moore
Hazel Court
Ian Hunter
Fred Johnson
Kenneth J. Warren
Film Details
Synopsis
Expelled from his studies in medical research in Vienna, Dr. Peter Blood, a frustrated biochemist, returns to the Cornish village where his father is a general practitioner. Certain that by utilizing a South American arrow tip poison he can transfer the heart of a "worthless" living person to a "worthy" corpse and restore life, Peter kidnaps several villagers and uses them as living subjects for the experiments he is conducting in an abandoned mine. He becomes attracted to his father's nurse, Linda Parker, whose husband died in an accident a year ago and who is still grieving. Eventually, Linda discovers Peter's activities and threatens to expose him, but Peter exhumes her husband's corpse and gives it the heart of a hobo he has abducted. Faced with the horrible sight of her revivified husband, Linda becomes hysterical. Peter seizes the living corpse when it attempts to strangle Linda, and the doctor and his monster become locked in a death struggle. As they destroy each other, Linda stumbles from the mine.
Director
Sidney J. Furie
Cast
Kieron Moore
Hazel Court
Ian Hunter
Fred Johnson
Kenneth J. Warren
Andy Alston
Paul Stockman
John Ronane
Gerald Lawson
Paul Hardtmuth
Crew
Buddy Booth
Les Bowie
John Comfort
Stephen Dade
George Fowler
Anthony Gibbs
Jerry Juran
James Kelly
Scott Macgregor
Philip Martell
Peter Miller
Peter Neilson
Buxton Orr
David E. Rose
Bill Salter
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Notes
Location scenes filmed in Cornwall, England. Released in Great Britain in January 1961. The working title of this film is Face of Evil. Sources conflict in crediting the roles played by Fred Johnson and Gerald C. Lawson.
