Corridors of Blood (1958)

Corridors of Blood: Directed by Robert Day. With Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Christopher Lee, Finlay Currie. Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.

“Long before anesthesia, operations in London hospitals were wards of screaming patients in great pain and suffering. In 1840, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff),a great humanitarian surgeon, tries to eliminate all the pain and suffering connected with surgery. Bolton tries out experiments on himself and as a result becomes addicted to the drugs which he is taking. Some of Dr. Boltonu0026#39;s pain-killing gas works against him and a patient revives and attacks employeeu0026#39;s of the hospital, therefore, Dr. Bolton is dismissed. Bolton wanders into the Seven Dials, a disreputable tavern and is taken over by the innkeeper, Black Ben(Francis De Wolff) and his assistant, Resurrection Joe(Christopher Lee)(The Dracula of the 60u0026#39;s) This film was originally titled u0026quot;Doctor from Seven Dials, and this film was produced back-to-back with u0026quot;The Haunted Strangleru0026quot; by the same director, Robert Day. This film is a great old gaslite melodrama of Old London in Bu0026amp;W and gives you the creeps with all the cries of pain, blood and pain. Karloff plays a very calm doctor in Wolfu0026#39;s clothing, ready to do his THING!”