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January 1959 (UK) morePlot:
A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
One-joke movie. moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Leslie Phillips | ... | Simon Hurd |
| Susan Beaumont | ... | Stella |
| Bill Fraser | ... | Jeremy Bentham |
| Thelma Ruby | ... | Junior Mistress |
| Mary Mackenzie | ... | Hester Waring |
| Paul Stassino | ... | Nick Morelli |
| Jimmy Thompson | ... | Lt. Hunter |
| Charles Clay | ... | Col. Hunter |
| Anita Sharp-Bolster | ... | Lady Hunter |
| Shaun O'Riordan | ... | Reverend Pitt |
| Marianne Stone | ... | Bentham's secretary |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Michael Bird | ... | Detective sergeant |
| Paul Bogdan | ... | Dr. Cantare |
| Anthony Green | ... | Tommy |
| Alastair Hunter | ... | Communist Party leader |
| Lily Lapidus | ... | Ma Morelli |
| Arthur Mullard | ... | Renny Fiasco |
| Etain O'Dell | ||
| James Ottaway | ... | Butler |
| Hester Paton-Brown | ||
| Larry Taylor | ... | Maxie (as Laurence Taylor) |
| Brian Tyler | ... | Nutter |
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60 minCountry:
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Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UKFAQ
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If you've read the plot summary, you know the joke. How many times can this be repeated in different situations while remaining funny? ...Well probably fewer times than this movie attempts to get away with. To be charitable I suppose there's some slight comparison with a movie like "Kind Hearts and Coronets", where a one-joke scenario is repeated many times. But unfortunately "The Man Who Liked Funerals" has neither the range of amusing characters nor the talented actors to carry off a really sustained comedy. In the end it's a mediocre but occasionally successful small-scale comedy.