Comedy /

Score: 65%( 58 votes )

Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Cast:

John Mills
Masterman Finsbury

Ralph Richardson
Joseph Finsbury

Michael Caine
Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury

Peter Cook
Morris Finsbury

Dudley Moore
John Finsbury

Nanette Newman
Julia Finsbury

Tony Hancock
Detective

Peter Sellers
Doctor Pratt

Cicely Courtneidge
Major Martha

Wilfrid Lawson
Peacock

Thorley Walters
Patience

Gerald Sim
1st Undertaker

Peter Graves
Military Officer

Irene Handl
Mrs. Hackett

Norman Bird
Clergyman

John Le Mesurier
Doctor Slattery

Hilton Edwards
Lawyer

Norman Rossington
1st Rough

Diane Clare
Mercy

Tutte Lemkow
Strangler

Jeremy Lloyd
Brian Allen Harvey

James Villiers
Sydney Whitcombe Sykes

Graham Stark
Ian Scott Fife

Dick Gregory
Leicester Young Fielding

Nicholas Parsons
Alan Frazer Scrope

Willoughby Goddard
James Whyte Wragg

Valentine Dyall
Oliver Pike Harmsworth

Leonard Rossiter
Vyvyan Alistair Montague

Hamilton Dyce
Derek Lloyd Peter Digby

Timothy Bateson
Clerk

Donald Oliver
Gunner Sergeant

Totti Truman Taylor
Lady at Launching

Jeremy Roughton
Bugler

Frank Singuineau
Native Bearer

Michael Lees
Young Digby

Avis Bunnage
Queen Victoria

Gwendolyn Watts
Maidservant

Vanda Godsell
Mrs. Goodge

Marianne Stone
Spinster

John Junkin
1st Engine Driver

Roy Murray
Stoker

Donald Tandy
Ticket Collector

Lionel Gamlin
2nd Engine Driver

Martin Terry
Stoker

Michael Bird
Countryman

George Selway
Railway Vanman

Josef Behrmann
Railway Vanman

Thomas Gallagher
2nd Rough

Charlie Bird
Bonn's Vanmen

Tony Thawnton
2nd Undertaker

Reg Lye
3rd Undertaker

George Spence
Workman in Road

Penny Brahms
Twittering Female on the Moors

Andrea Allan
Girl on Train

David Lodge
Corpse Remover

Juliet Mills
Mannish Woman on Train

André Morell
Club Butler

Maria Kazan
Twittering Female on the Moors