The read
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Critics rate it 21 points higher than audiences do.
69 audience votes
Key crew
- Bryan ForbesDirector
- Burt SheveloveWriter
- Larry GelbartWriter
- John BarryOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- John MillsMasterman Finsbury
- Ralph RichardsonJoseph Finsbury
- Michael CaineMichael Hubert Gregory Finsbury
- Peter CookMorris Finsbury
- Dudley MooreJohn Finsbury
- Nanette NewmanJulia Finsbury
- Tony HancockDetective
- Peter SellersDoctor Pratt
- Cicely CourtneidgeMajor Martha
- Wilfrid LawsonPeacock
- Thorley WaltersPatience
- Gerald Sim1st Undertaker
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookdark comedyvictorian englandqueen of england19th century