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Director:
David Eady
Writers:
Margot Bennett (writer)
Cecily Finn (story)
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Release Date:
January 1959 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
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 synopsis
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One-joke movie. more (1 total)

Cast

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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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Runtime:
60 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Colour:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Company:
Penington Eady Productions more

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One-joke movie., 7 August 2000
4/10
Author: Neil-117 from Melbourne, Australia

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.

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