A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
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They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college professor, of the addlepated rather than absentminded variety. McKern has come to the conclusion that certain people are leeching off society, and the world would be well rid of… More They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college professor, of the addlepated rather than absentminded variety. McKern has come to the conclusion that certain people are leeching off society, and the world would be well rid of them. He heads for his laboratory to create the means of "purging" these useless people. He comes up with a poison that prompts his victims to laugh hysterically before joining the Choir Invisible. A little more heavy-handed than the British "dark farces" of the 1950s, They All Died Laughing was originally released in England as A Jolly Bad Fellow. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Don Chaffey
- Written By
- Robert Hamer, Donald Taylor
- Genres
- Drama, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 15, 1964 Wide
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Cast
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Leo McKern
as Prof. Bowles-Ottery
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Janet Munro
as Delia Brooks
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Maxine Audley
as Clarinda Bowles-Ottery
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Duncan Macrae
as Dr. Brass
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Dennis Price
as Prof. Hughes
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Miles Malleson
as Dr. Woolley
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Leonard Rossiter
as Dr. Fisher
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Alan Wheatley
as Epicene
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Patricia Jessell
as Mrs. Pugh-Smith
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Dinsdale Landen
as Fred
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Mark Dignam
as The Master
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Jerome Willis
as Armstrong
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Ralph Michael
as Supt. Rastleigh
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Mervyn Johns
as Willie Pugh-Smith
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Raymond Ray
as The Waiter
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George Benson
as Inspector Butts
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Joyce Carey
as Hotel Receptionist
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Wally Patch
as Landlord
- Cliff Michelmore
- Patricia Jessel
