Corridors of Blood

1958 "Tops in Terror!"
6.4| 1h26m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 December 1958 Released
Producted By: Amalgamated Productions
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An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben and his henchman Resurrection Joe.

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Robert Day

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Amalgamated Productions

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Bereamic Awesome Movie
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Michael O'Keefe CORRIDORS of BLOOD is one of those movies that could be considered an almost forgotten masterpiece. Horror veteran Boris Karloff takes a serious lead role and is excellent. Dr. Thomas Bolton(Karloff),an aging, but still respected London surgeon, believes that surgery does not have to be painful. This is before the days of anesthesia; and Bolton, while not at the hospital or his own private charity practice, at home begins experimenting on himself trying to develop a gas based on mixtures of nitrous oxide and opium and or heroin to provide patients with painless surgery. Bolton after many unsuccessful tries, ends up losing his job...and at the same time becomes addicted to the gas. With his supplies cut off by the hospital, the doctor is desperate enough make a deal with a gang of body snatchers and falsifying death certificates in order to gain access to the chemicals he so drastically needs.Being filmed at the MGM British Studios, at lease three scenes had to be modified to please the British censors. The renown Robert Day directs this Jean Scott Rogers screenplay. A well-rounded supporting cast features: Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Frances De Wolff, Basil Dignam, Adrienne Corri, Frances Matthews and Yvonne Warren(before she became Yvonne Romain).
DJAkin I DVR'd this movie and liked it a great deal. Boris delivers the goods as a doctor who performs surgery in a THEATER. He does not use anesthesia because it had not been invented yet. So he has to cut people while they squirm in pain. Eventually he invents an anesthesia and gets hooked on it. The more he inhales the stranger he becomes. IN once scene he laughs hysterically and cuts his arm. Yes, he FEELS NO PAIN. There is a large BLUTO looking guy who hoodwinks him into coming to his strange house of sin. At this house there are TONS of wounded people who hobble around. There is this one guy who smothers folks with pillows and sells the bodies to the local hospital. Meanwhile the BORIS KARLOFF continues to dwindle into the depths of madness. Great movie!!
Spikeopath Dr. Thomas Bolton is one of London's top surgeons, brilliant and fast, he is however constantly troubled by the amount of pain his patients go through, for this be a time before anaesthesia. Painstakingly working on a formula to put patients to sleep during surgery, Bolton is convinced he has found a breakthrough, but upon trialling it in front of the board it goes terribly wrong. He continues undaunted, but as he keeps testing the formula out on himself he becomes badly addicted, unable to get the hospital board to sanction his research, he gets involved with a dastardly group of murderers who kill and then sell off corpse's to a suspect doctor.Make no (saw) bones about it, this is a wonderful Boris Karloff performance, the amount of sympathy and earthy fortitude he puts into Dr. Bolton is very impressive. The plot isn't up to much and fans of staple horror requirements will hardly get any titillation from it, but as a crime picture and a character study it comes out smiling and delivers the goods. The sets are very good, check out the frontal entry into the Seven Dials area, and now with better digital transfers the picture's black and white texture ripens the watching experience. It's a film that I suppose is easily forgotten quickly after the viewing, but it's well worth watching for Karloff's turn and an ending that is strangely sad but uplifting at the same time. 6/10
dbborroughs Another from the Criterion Madmen and Monsters set. Here Boris Karloff is a doctor trying to find away to end pain during surgery. Regrettably he becomes addicted to his drugs and all sorts of havoc ensues.Better in many way than the co feature Haunted Strangler, this boasts a super performance from Christopher Lee. The problem is that this is tough going when viewed close to the Haunted Strangler since in some ways its more of the same (which isn't too far off since the films were made somewhat back to back). Watching them back to back, as one is prone to do with double feature sets I found my attention wandering, which is very unfair because this is a good movie.Heavily censored upon initial release this is a dark and cold film where everyone appears to be on the make or damaged in someway. (The cut material is included as an extra in the Criterion set; which also has an excellent commentary).I really do like the movie, I only wish I had watched it spaced days apart from its co feature not minutes.