Comedy ·Crime · United Kingdom · 1964 · 1h 34m

A Jolly Bad Fellow

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Director
Don Chaffey
Cast
Leo McKern as Professor Kerris Bowles-Ottery Janet Munro as Delia Brooks Maxine Audley as Clarinda Bowles-Ottery Dennis Price as Dr. John Hughes Miles Malleson as Dr. Woolley Mervyn Johns as Willie Pugh-Smith
Crew
Gerald Gibbs — Director of Photography Peter Tanner — Editor John Barry — Original Music Composer Donald Taylor — Screenplay Robert Hamer — Writer C.E. Vulliamy — Novel
Tagline

THEY ALL DIED LAUGHING

Synopsis

An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.

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Mood & Themes
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Key Collaborators
Don Chaffey Director Gerald Gibbs Director of Photography Peter Tanner Editor John Barry Original Music Composer Donald Taylor Screenplay Robert Hamer Writer C.E. Vulliamy Novel Donald Taylor Producer
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