Dennis Price (Duke Louis Mazzini/ Mazzini Sr./ Narrator)
Alec Guinness (The Duke/ The Banker/ The Parson/ The General/ The Admiral/ Young Ascoyne D'Ascoyne/Young Henry/ Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne)
Joan Greenwood (Sibella)
Audrey Fildes (Mama)
Miles Malleson (Mr. Elliott The Hangman)
Clive Morton (The Prison Governor)
John Penrose (Lionel)
Cecil Ramage (The Crown Counsel)
Hugh Griffith (Lord High Steward)
John Salew (Mr. Perkins the Lodger)
Eric Messiter (Det. Insp. Burgoyne)
Lyn Evans (The Farmer)
Barbara Leake (Miss Waterman The Schoolmistress)
Peggy Ann Clifford (Maud)
Alec Guinness (The Duke/ The Banker/ The Parson/ The General/ The Admiral/ Young Ascoyne D'Ascoyne/Young Henry/ Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne)
Joan Greenwood (Sibella)
Audrey Fildes (Mama)
Miles Malleson (Mr. Elliott The Hangman)
Clive Morton (The Prison Governor)
John Penrose (Lionel)
Cecil Ramage (The Crown Counsel)
Hugh Griffith (Lord High Steward)
John Salew (Mr. Perkins the Lodger)
Eric Messiter (Det. Insp. Burgoyne)
Lyn Evans (The Farmer)
Barbara Leake (Miss Waterman The Schoolmistress)
Peggy Ann Clifford (Maud)
A genteel mass-murderer is out to heartlessly crown the eight relatives standing between him and the family fortune. In his greatest virtuoso performance, the late Alec Guinness plays all eight victims. Like his skillful brilliance in acting each different eccentric, Ealing Studio's witty black comedy is regarded as without peer in the history of British cinema.(83 pictures)
