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He Father says no and that he shouldn't be so interested in science at his young age, and adds "you'll see me in my grave before I let you go gallivanting off to Vienna for a couple of years".
He hires a local grave robber (Denis Price) who makes his wife (Joan Rice) do all the work and dig up the bodies, to provide him with the necessary parts.
When Victor tells the grave robber that he needs fresh body parts he replies "anything I bring you would get past the Government meat inspectors".
My father went to his grave hating the Japanese and that is hardly surprising.
Although other movies have depicted the pair as grave robbers, here they are correctly shown to be not so much ghouls as brutal murderers who think nothing of slaying any drunkard, trollop or easy mark they come across to make a few extra guineas, selling their "fresh as a new-cut cabbage" wares to Dr. Robert Knox at a nearby Edinburgh medical school.
Things get real bizarre when Megan thinks she is being contacted by her sister from beyond the grave.
I mean Son is really bad; I've heard Peter Sellers (the original Inspector Clouseau) roll in his grave a time or two, but I thought there was thunder outside when I saw this.
Oh, but you know Jeremy's got his comeuppance coming to him, yes sir! Jeremy notices a painting on the wall(Hendrick's portraits line the wall of the stairwell) and the freshly dug grave where dear dead Uncle was buried begins to change every time he looks at it.
Karloff is VERY creepy as the devil-worshipping madman whose cold, concrete Bauhaus sits atop the site of a bloody battle (it even overlooks a field of crude grave markers); his almost effeminate makeup and mannerisms further his creepiness (his black gown hangs like a dress on him and he often gestures with wrist limp).
Nelson Eddy must have spun in his grave - and if was dead yet, that probably killed him!
Many MPs who backed the incorporation of the European human-rights convention into British law came to view formal recognition of human rights as a grave inconvenience when faced with Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism.
There are grave doubts about whether the Iranian nuclear program could be eliminated from the air.
Historically, the road to disaster has usually been paved with good intentions and grave errors of judgment.
He would ensure that the American public knew how the error occurred, and that whoever was responsible for it suffered the usual consequences that befall senior officials who make what was--to put the best possible interpretation on it--a grave error of judgment.
This shortsightedness is a grave mistake that impedes innovation and progress.
Diabetes poses an especially grave threat to Mexico, where urbanization and other social changes are pushing people toward more sedentary lifestyles and triggering a surge in obesity-related diseases.
Climate change poses a grave threat to the natural environment, to economic growth, and to the lives of all people around the world, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.
They send their leaders before law-making bodies to express contrition for grave malfeasance and promise future good behavior.
The world’s two largest democracies face a grave economic challenge.
There are even rumors that some of them have resorted to witchcraft to summon spirits from beyond the grave, and that Ahmadinejad has had direct contact with the hidden Imam (the Shia messiah).
The inflation may be severe, implying massive unjust redistributions and at least a temporary grave degradation in the price system’s capacity to guide resource allocation.
Having misdiagnosed the ailment, policymakers have prescribed untested experimental medicine with potentially grave side effects.
These results demonstrate the grave dangers that young democracies face, as well as the fragility of democratic culture.
“Cowardice in defending it is a grave sin.”
In other words, all of the migration that Europe currently faces is rooted in grave crises in its own neighborhood.
The War on “Democratization”The wars in Lebanon and Gaza constitute a grave threat to democratic reform in the southern Mediterranean.
Democracies have long known that extreme and indiscriminate punishment – which by definition affects friend and foe, combatant and civilian alike – is a grave violation of international law, as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, has pointed out.
The destruction of the Chinese satellite produced roughly 300,000 pieces of debris, causing severe pollution and putting many other spacecraft in the Earth’s orbit in grave danger.
And if he is, to what extent will his policies be responsible, and will faster growth entail grave long-term costs to the environment and income inequality?
More and more people believe that they are doing their children a favor by letting themselves be buried anonymously "under the green grass" to spare them the costs of the funeral and the upkeep of the grave.
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