Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Clive Morton, Hugh Griffith, Miles Malleson, Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Audrey Fildes, John Penrose, Cecil Ramage
Director
Robert Hamer
Year
1949
Category
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Language
German, English
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.