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.
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Dennis Price | Louis |
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Valerie Hobson | Edith |
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Joan Greenwood | Sibella |
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Alec Guinness | The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke |
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Audrey Fildes | Mama |
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Miles Malleson | The Hangman |
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Clive Morton | The Prison Governor |
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John Penrose | Lionel |
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Cecil Ramage | Crown Counsel |
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Hugh Griffith | Lord High Steward |
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John Salew | Mr. Perkins |
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Eric Messiter | Burgoyne |
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Lyn Evans | The Farmer |
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Barbara Leake | The Schoolmistress |
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Peggy Anne | Maud |
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Anne Valery | The Girl in the Punt |
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Arthur Lowe | The Reporter |
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Stanley Beard | Warder |
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Norman Fisher | Member of D'Ascoyne Household |
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Maxwell Foster | Warder |
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Peter Gawthorne | First Lord Delivering Verdict |
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Molly Hamley-Clifford | Lady Redpole |
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Leslie Handford | Gamekeeper Hoskins |
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Nicholas Hill | Sergeant-at-Arms |
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Fletcher Lightfoot | Peer of the Realm |
Director | Robert Hamer |
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Writer | Roy Horniman, Robert Hamer, John Dighton, Nancy Mitford | |
Producer | Michael Balcon, Michael Relph | |
Musician | Ernest Irving | |
Photography | Douglas Slocombe |