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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305071495
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6305071497
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: July 21, 1998
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 17995
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Editorial Review:
Description:
Boris Karloff is a surgeon in search of a viable anesthetic, in the days when patients were strapped down with leather bands while fully conscious. The doctor soon becomes addicted to his newly-discovered gas. In his desperation to get the drug, Karloff must make a diabolical bargain with body snatchers to feed his growing habit. 'A natural for horror addicts, if they can stand all that blood!'--Daily Cinema.
Amazon.com:
'Pain and the knife are inseparable!' That's what incredulous colleagues keep telling Dr. Bolton (Boris Karloff), a respected surgeon who is determined to develop a successful anesthetic to bring pain-free surgery to 1840s England, when brutal amputation is a bloody and commonplace procedure. Bolton keeps testing his latest 'inhalations' on himself, and his son's warnings against addiction remain unheeded. Before long, the tenacious doctor is hooked on his own elixir, barred from further practice and the drugs needed for research, and so desperate to prove the validity of his work that he agrees to a Faustian bargain: In exchange for the necessary chemicals, he signs bogus death certificates for local body-snatchers Black Ben (Francis De Wolff) and Resurrection Joe (Christopher Lee), who earn cash by supplying medical schools with fresh cadavers.
Robert Day (who also directed Karloff in The Haunted Strangler) handles this morbid plot with professional restraint, adding some routine hallucinatory interludes when Karloff's delirium results in a barrage of fevered visions. Otherwise this is a well-crafted but rather bland affair, noteworthy for its early display of blood (which is utterly tasteful by later standards) and also for giving Karloff one of his juicier roles, which the veteran horror icon tackles with admirable vigor and appropriate obsessiveness. On the strength of his early films for Hammer Studios, Christopher Lee was given prominent billing when this film (shot in 1958) was finally released in 1962, and while his eerie presence is keenly felt, his role is a relatively minor one. Still, this makes Corridors of Blood something of a milestone in the genre, signaling the passage of Karloff's era and the beginning of Lee's. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A decent film
This is an interesting film, which may even have some basis in truth. Boris Karloff plays a Doctor who is determined to find a way to end the suffering of patients who have to undergo surgery without anaethestic. Unfortunately his first demonstration is unsuccessful and as a result he is only able to test the various gases he creates on himself and this has unforseen side effects.
There are good supporting roles from Christopher Lee and Francis Matthews, but it is Karloff who holds ... Read More
Rating:  - Good period entertainment
I first was exposed to this movie as the second act on my local Friday night horror movie special when I was a kid. I didn't remember much of the plot or even the name of the movie (I probably was asleep for most of it), but the phrase, "Pain and the knife are inseparable!" stuck in my head.
I wanted to see this movie again after recently undergoing a minor surgical procedure with only a bit of pain (a botched IV insertion).
"Corridors of Blood" is an very good period ... Read More
Rating: - The Perils Of Self Intoxication
Plot: Dr. Bolton (Boris Karloff), highly respected surgeon in mid-19th century England believes in the possibility of painless surgery dispite the derision of his unbelieving colleages. In his obsessive desire to discover the right mix of chemicals for his proposed anesthetic he risks his reputation and life by acting as the guinea pig for his experimental concoctions.
This '58 film is not some much a horror movie as it's a tale of how complusion and lack of self restriant can lead ... Read More
Rating: - Medical History film a treasure among very few
this film is excellent from a Historical point of view, Times of events, ect are changed, but for detail, correct in everyway. I only have one complaint at the end of the film it says 1840 instead of 1846, but that is a personel fault of mine, !I'm too picky for Medical Historical correctness" Definately based On Horance Wells, (His attempt at painless surgery failed in 1844, too litle gas). there are not enougth Medical History films and this one I watch a lot, Never mind who is in it if you like ... Read More
Rating: - Karloff & Lee - together!
Poor Dr. Thomas Bolton (Karloff). He's a compassionate, elderly British surgeon in the days before anesthesia. Tired of seeing his patients undergo excruciating agonies on the operating table, Bolton is working doggedly to concoct a drug which will banish pain and allow his patients to feel nothing during surgery. A failed and humiliating demonstration of his new drug before his professional peers makes Bolton even more determined to prove them wrong when they insist, "Pain and the knife are one." ... Read More
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