I Bury The Living

Runtime: 77 Minutes

Studio: MGM

Director: Albert Band

Writer(s): Louis Garfinkle

Staring: Richard Boone, Theodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer, Robert Osterloh, Herbert Anderson, Howard Smith.

Description: A newly appointed cemetery chairman Robert Craft, notices something a little odd with his cemetery. It seems that every time he sticks a pin in the map that keeps tracks of purchased land, the people who purchased the land end up dead. Robert tells everyone he can but no one seems to believe him, is it just his imagination or does he have the power to pick who lives or dies.

Gore/Violence: There is absolutely no blood in the movie. This movie was made in 1958, so gore is not a big part of it. These kinds of movies rely on story alone.

Body Count: It's hard to judge this category because it hardly shows anyone dying. It does show a few dead bodies, but most of the deaths are mentioned, not shown.

Nudity & Sexuality: Like I said before, it's made in 1958, don't expect any boobies in the movie not even black and white ones.

Death Scenes: Death scenes are not really shown in this movie. The ones they did show sucked, but these older movies rely on the storyline, not the death/gore scenes like the movies nowadays.

Acting/Storyline: Now the important part, the storyline. I thought the storyline was creative and interesting. With the movie lacking in every other category, the storyline is the only thing that kept me from turning off the movie. It's a very intriguing concept and it kind of makes you wish that the present movies would focus more on storyline instead of special effects.

I thought the acting was very good. Richard Boone does a good job at of making the viewer feel his disbelief when people start dying just from placing a pin on a map.

Final Rating: I'm so used to watching movies with colour, and special effects that I really didn't want to watch this movie. Once I got all that crap out of my head, I started to enjoy the movie and could not wait to see what the hell was going on. Not everyone is going to like this movie; it's a plain black and white movie, no explosions, no special effects, just a great story.