The Greed of William Hart

The Greed of William Hart is a 1948 British crime film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Aubrey Woods, Patrick Addison, Jenny Lynn, Winifred Melville and Arnold Bell. The film depicts two Edinburgh bodysnatchers closely modeled on the real Burke and Hare.

The film was originally written as a fairly direct historical adaptation of the Burke and Hare murders. The British Board of Film Censors, however, insisted that all references to the reallife murderers be removed. The film was then retitled and redubbed with different character names, substituting Hart and Moore for Hare and Burke, respectively, and Dr. Cox for Dr. Knox. Some names, including victims Mary Patterson, Mrs. Docherty, and Daft Jamie Wilson, remain unchanged.Writer John Gilling would go on to script another version of the same story in 1960, titled The Flesh and the Fiends. This version used the correct names for the killers. ........

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