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The Man Who Liked Funerals

The Man Who Liked Funerals

1959Movie⏱️ 1h 0m
Comedy
⭐ 6.1
IMDB Rating
59 votes

A gangster's death leads a man who wants money to save a youth club, to blackmail the deceased's family. He then tries blackmailing a villain's prominent family.

Director
David Eady
Writers
Margot Bennett, Cecily Finn, Joan O'Connor
Stars
Anthony Green, Brian Tyler, Leslie Phillips
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

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Anthony Green
as Tommy
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Brian Tyler
as Nutter
Leslie Phillips
Leslie Phillips
as Simon Hurd
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Shaun O'Riordan
as Reverend Pitt
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Susan Beaumont
as Stella
Marianne Stone
Marianne Stone
as Bentham's secretary
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Bill Fraser
as Jeremy Bentham
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Anita Sharp-Bolster
as Lady Hunter
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Jimmy Thompson
as Lt. Hunter
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Charles Clay
as Col. Hunter

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Twickenham Film Studios, St Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
Production
Penington Eady Productions

🏷️ Keywords

blackmailfuneral

🎯 Categories

Comedy

⭐ Featured Review

A Breath of Scandal
by richardchatten β€’ 2024-01-28
7/10

"In the late fifties comic vehicles for Leslie Phillips practically constituted a genre in their own right. Released in the same year that Mario Zampi's 'Too Many Crooks' anticipated 'Loot', 'The Man Who Liked Funerals' similarly embraces the genial cynicism of Michael Pertwee's scripts for Zampi, surrounding Phillips with a gallery of ghouls, grotesques & weirdos including Jimmy Thompson as a Colonel's son who deserts from the army to become a ballet dancer before deciding that on second thoughts he's "only suited to the soft life of ..."

πŸ“– Synopsis

A gangster's death leads a man who wants money to save a youth club, to blackmail the deceased's family. He then tries blackmailing a villain's prominent family.