Doctor Monro: And your new students, are they enjoying your lectures?
Doctor Robert Knox: Er, not as much as I understand they're enjoying your wife, sir.
William Burke: I had confidence in a fart once, and I shat all over myself.
Burke and Hare (2010)
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Directed by: John Landis
Starring: Tim Curry, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Bailey, Michael Smiley
Factual error: On the opening shot of Edinburgh Castle, you can see the spire of The Hub to the left of the screen. The film takes place in 1828 but The Hub was not built until 1845.
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