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A Balasaur Score of 84 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%. Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 94% of the 236 1940s comedy movies in this catalog. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
627 audience votes
Key crew
- Robert HamerDirector
- Ernest IrvingOriginal Music Composer
- Robert HamerScreenplay
- John DightonScreenplay
Cast
- Dennis PriceLouis Mazzini / His Father
- Alec GuinnessThe D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
- Joan GreenwoodSibella
- Valerie HobsonEdith D'Ascoyne
- Audrey FildesMama
- Miles MallesonThe Hangman
- Clive MortonThe Prison Governor
- John PenroseLionel Holland
- Cecil RamageCrown Counsel
- Hugh GriffithLord High Steward
- John SalewMr. Perkins
- Eric MessiterInspector Burgoyne
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Themes
prisonjealousybased on novel or bookitalianpoisonwidowgallowsdark comedyhot air balloondukerelativessinger
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