Burke and Hare

John Landis’ final feature film is a director for hire job and another attempt to replicate the kinds of films from the past, this time Ealing Street comedies. He doesn’t balance things as well as Alexander Mackendrick in stuff like The Man in the White Suit, the script by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft not really providing him the best grounding on which to build a black comedy, though it was obviously the intention from the start. The choice to make one of the eponymous pair a tragic he...