An Ealing Studios production considered one of the classics of British cinema, writer-director Robert Hamer’s pitch-black, Edwardian-era comedy stars Dennis Price as the ninth in line for the D’Ascoyne fortune, who sets out to murder the eight heirs before him, including a general, a parson and a dowager, all played by Alec Guinness. With Joan Greenwood. (UK 1949) 106 min.
An Ealing Studios production considered one of the classics of British cinema, writer-director Robert Hamer’s pitch-black, Edwardian-era comedy stars Dennis Price as the ninth in line for the D’Ascoyne fortune, who sets out to murder the eight heirs before him, including a general, a parson and a dowager, all played by Alec Guinness. With Joan Greenwood. (UK 1949) 106 min.
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