

21/06/1949
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

Dennis Price
as Louis Mazzini / His Father

Alec Guinness
as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha

Joan Greenwood
as Sibella

Valerie Hobson
as Edith D'Ascoyne

Audrey Fildes
as Mama

Miles Malleson
as The Hangman

Clive Morton
as The Prison Governor

John Penrose
as Lionel Holland

Cecil Ramage
as Crown Counsel

Hugh Griffith
as Lord High Steward

John Salew
as Mr. Perkins

Eric Messiter
as Inspector Burgoyne

Lyn Evans
as The Farmer

Barbara Leake
as The Schoolmistress

Peggy Ann Clifford
as Maud Redpole

Anne Valery
as The Girl in the Punt

Arthur Lowe
as The Reporter

Peter Gawthorne
as First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)

Molly Hamley-Clifford
as Lady Redpole (uncredited)

Leslie Handford
as Gamekeeper Hoskins (uncredited)

Cavan Malone
as Young Graham (uncredited)

Jeremy Spenser
as Young Louis (uncredited)

Carol White
as Young Sibella (uncredited)

Laurence Naismith
as Warder in Jail (uncredited)

Gordon Phillott
as Clerk of Parliament (uncredited)

Richard Wattis
as Defence Counsel (uncredited)

Harold Young
as Captain (uncredited)
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