Closely similar to film morticians, in spirit anyway, are the various doctors and gravediggers in THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) and the family members and minister who terrorize the child in 3 FACES OF EVE. I think also that some appeared in a Roger Corman version of one of Poe's stories (THE STRANGE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR?) Peter Latham ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu