The Flesh and the Fiends is a 1960 British drama horror crime film. It features Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, Dermot Walsh, Billie Whitelaw, Melvyn Hayes, and George Woodbridge.
In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.