CORRIDORS OF BLOOD (1958) – Episode 205 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

"Yes, most distressing, but, alas, inevitably, you can't have operations without screams. Pain and the knife, they're inseparable!" But apparently not that distressing as long as some strong blokes are there to hold folks down? Join this episode's Grue-Crew – Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Chad Hunt, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they walk the Corridors of Blood (1958) with Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee.

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era
Episode 205 – Corridors of Blood (1958)

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In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops an opium-based anesthetic, to which he gradually becomes addicted. To provide a continual supply of chemicals to continue his experiments and support his addiction, he falls in with a den of murderers who use his signature to sell cadavers to the local hospital.

• Director: Robert Day
• Writer: Jean Scott Rogers
• Selected Cast:
  • Boris Karloff as Dr. Bolton
  • Betta St. John as Susan
  • Christopher Lee as Resurrection Joe
  • Finlay Currie as Supt. Matheson
  • Adrienne Corri as Rachel
  • Francis De Wolff as Black Ben
  • Francis Matthews as Jonathan Bolton
  • Frank Pettingell as Mr. Blount
  • Basil Dignam as Chairman
  • Marian Spencer as Mrs Matheson
  • Carl Bernard as Ned, The Crow
  • John Gabriel as Dispenser
  • Nigel Green as Insp. Donovan
  • Yvonne Romain as Rosa (credited as Yvonne Warren)
  • Howard Lang as Chief Inspector
  • Julian D'Albie as Bald Man
  • Roddy Hughes as Man With Watch
  • Robert Raglan as Wilkes
  • Charles Lloyd Pack as Hardcastle
  • Anthea Holloway as Undetermined Role
  • Bernard Archard as Hospital Official
  • Frank Sieman as Evans, Hospital Night Porter
  • Charmian Eyre as Maid
  • Skip Martin as Dwarf eats Soup (uncredited)

On this episode, the Grue Crew enthusiastically welcomes back Doc Rotten with Corridors of Blood (1958), the back end of the double feature they began with Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory in Episode 204. Oh, what a strange pairing for a double bill! Corridors of Blood stars Boris Karloff