Corridors of Blood (1958)

Corridors of Blood (1958)
86 min - Crime, Drama, Horror - 6th September 1962 (UK)

Director: Robert Day
Writer: Jean Scott Rogers (screenplay)

Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig but soon finds himself addicted.
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. In order 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.

Cast
Boris Karloff ... Dr. Thomas Bolton
Betta St. John ... Susan
Christopher Lee ... Resurrection Joe
Finlay Currie ... Supt. Charles Matheson
Adrienne Corri ... Rachel
Francis De Wolff ... Black Ben (as Francis de Wolff)
Francis Matthews ... Jonathan Bolton
Frank Pettingell ... Mr Blount
Basil Dignam ... Hospital chairman
Carl Bernard ... Ned, The Crow
Nigel Green ... Insp. Donovan
Yvonne Romain ... Rosa (as Yvonne Warren)
Howard Lang ... Chief Inspector

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

The working title was "Doctor of the Seven Dial", but MGM objected. They thought that foreign audiences would not be familiar with that area of London.

The censors successfully lobbied to have three scenes omitted:
(1) The close-up of the leg amputation.
(2) Lee's stabbing the night watchman in the back.
(3) Karloff's throwing acid in Lee's face.