
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1949
- Starring
- Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Audrey Fildes, Miles Malleson, Clive Morton, Cecil Ramage and others
- Writers
- Roy Horniman, Robert Hamer and John Dighton
- Director
- Robert Hamer
- Producer
- Michael Balcon
Upon the death of his beloved mother, half-Italian, half-English nobleman Louis Mazzini resolves to seek revenge upon his estranged aristocratic family for ostracising her for marrying for love, and for denying his existence.
Through a series of plots and happy coincidences, Mazzini brings about and observes the demise of an array of members of the family he has never met, edging ever-closer towards becoming the Duke of Chalfont himself.
Meanwhile, the softly-spoken former department store clerk is taunted by Sibella, his beguiling and manipulative childhood sweetheart who married another man despite his warnings, and is now deeply regretful of her choices.
- Tagline
- He chopped down the family tree...; A hilarious study in the gentle art of murder
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 106 minutes
- Release date
- Thursday 23rd June 1949
- Distributor
- Production company
- Picture
- Black and white
- Soundtrack
- Music by Ernest Irving.
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- Last repeat
- Sunday 20th December 2020 at 1:15pm on TPTV
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