


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.

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
Bryan Forbes
Larry Gelbart, Burt Shevelove
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