Corridors of Blood (1958)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Robert Day

Writer:

Jean Scott Rogers (screenplay)
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Release Date:

6 September 1962 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Tops in Terror!

Plot:

In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic...

Plot Keywords:

Surgery | Experiment | Pickpocket | Grave Robbing | Nitrous Oxide

Cast

Boris Karloff	...	Dr. Bolton
Betta St. John	...	Susan
Christopher Lee	...	Resurrection Joe
Finlay Currie	...	Supt. Matheson
Adrienne Corri	...	Rachel
Francis De Wolff	...	Black Ben (also as Francis de Wolff)
Francis Matthews	...	Jonathan Bolton
Frank Pettingell	...	Mr Blount
Basil Dignam	...	Chairman
Marian Spencer	...	Mrs Matheson
Carl Bernard	...	Ned, The Crow
John Gabriel	...	Dispenser
Nigel Green	...	Insp. Donovan
Yvonne Romain	...	Rosa (as Yvonne Warren)
Howard Lang	...	Chief Inspector
Julian D'Albie	...	Bald Man
Roddy Hughes	...	Man with Watch
Robert Raglan	...	Wilkes
Charles Lloyd Pack	...	Hardcastle
Bernard Archard	...	Hospital Official
Frank Sieman	...	Evans, Hospital Night Porter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Josephine Bailey	...	Child (uncredited)
Anne Castaldini	...	Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Charmian Eyre	...	Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Anthea Holloway	...	Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Desmond Llewelyn	...	Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Skip Martin	...	Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Brian Wilde	...	Man in Operating Theatre Audience (uncredited)

Directed by
Robert Day

Writing credits
Jean Scott Rogers		(screenplay)
Jean Scott Rogers		(story) uncredited

Produced by
John Croydon	....	producer
Peter Mayhew	....	associate producer
Charles F. Vetter	....	producer (as Charles Vetter Jr.)
Richard Gordon	....	executive producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Buxton Orr

Cinematography by
Geoffrey Faithfull		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Peter Mayhew

Art Direction by
Anthony Masters

Makeup Department
Wally Schneiderman	....	makeup artist (as Walter Schneidermann)
Eileen Warwick	....	hairdresser

Production Management
George Mills	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Peter Bolton	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Maurice Askew	....	sound recordist
Peter Musgrave	....	dubbing editor
Cyril Swern	....	sound recordist

Camera and Electrical Department
Frank Drake	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Emma Selby-Walker	....	dress designer
Doris Turner	....	wardrobe mistress

Music Department
Buxton Orr	....	conductor
Frederick Lewis	....	musical director (uncredited)

Other crew
Susan Dyson	....	continuity

Production Companies

• Amalgamated Productions (as Producers Associates)

Distributors

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1962) (UK) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1963) (USA) (theatrical)
• Criterion Collection, The (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• General Networks Ltd. (1994) (UK) (VHS)
• Image Entertainment (USA) (DVD)
• Missing in Action (MIA) (1986) (UK) (VHS)
• Umbrella Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Doctor from Seven Dials (UK) (working title)

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | UK:X (original rating) (passed with cuts)

Company:

Amalgamated Productions

Trivia:

Although the film was not released until 1962, it was actually shot in 1958.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Corridor Gossip (2007) (V)

KARLOFF TRIES TO ELIMINATE ALL PAIN & SUFFERING!

Long before anesthesia, operations in London hospitals were wards of screaming patients in great pain and suffering. In 1840, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff),a great humanitarian surgeon, tries to eliminate all the pain and suffering connected with surgery. Bolton tries out experiments on himself and as a result becomes addicted to the drugs which he is taking. Some of Dr. Bolton's pain-killing gas works against him and a patient revives and attacks employee's of the hospital, therefore, Dr. Bolton is dismissed. Bolton wanders into the Seven Dials, a disreputable tavern and is taken over by the innkeeper, Black Ben(Francis De Wolff) and his assistant, Resurrection Joe(Christopher Lee)(The Dracula of the 60's) This film was originally titled "Doctor from Seven Dials, and this film was produced back-to-back with "The Haunted Strangler" by the same director, Robert Day. This film is a great old gaslite melodrama of Old London in B&W and gives you the creeps with all the cries of pain, blood and pain. Karloff plays a very calm doctor in Wolf's clothing, ready to do his THING!