Directed by:
Steve RobertsScreenplay:
Steve RobertsCast:
Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee, Ian McDiarmid, Lawrence Durrell, Harry Fowler, Jeremy Child, Liz Smith, Sheila Reid, Simon Jones, Gary Waldhorn, Denise Coffey (more)Plots(1)
This iconic British comedy, based on the script of the eccentric musician and narrator, Vivian Stanshall, who also starred in the film. The character of the English lord, Henry Rawlinson, was originally created for radio-broadcasted crazy sketches. In the 1980 film, the protagonist arrives at a family residence to help his completely insane relatives and equally crazy servants to exorcise the spirit of his deceased brother, Humbert. According to one film critic, this comedy has its honourable place in the pantheon of English entertainment somewhere between Monty Python's sketches and the film Withnail & I. You will laugh and cry until you feel sick. Sophisticated English freaks strike out! (Visions of Light)
(more)Cast
Trevor Howard
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Gandhi (1982)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Patrick Magee
UK
Best movies:
Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Cromwell (1970)
Ian McDiarmid
UK
Best movies:
'Star Wars': A Musical Journey (2005) (TV movie)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Harry Fowler
UK
Best movies:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Longest Day (1962)
Angels One Five (1952)
Jeremy Child
UK
Best movies:
Florence Nightingale (1985) (TV movie)
Sharpe's Enemy (1994) (TV movie)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Liz Smith
UK
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Between the Sheets (2003) (series)
Sheila Reid
UK
Best movies:
Othello (1965)
The Dresser (1983)
Brazil (1985)
Simon Jones
UK
Best movies:
12 Monkeys (1995)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Brazil (1985)
Denise Coffey
UK
Best movies:
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Saving Grace (2000)
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
Suzanne Danielle
UK
Best movies:
The Wild Geese (1978)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Tony Sympson
UK
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Night and the City (1950)
Jabberwocky (1977)
Toni Palmer
UK
Best movies:
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Personal Services (1987)
Daniel Gerroll
UK
Best movies:
Still Alice (2014)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
J.G. Devlin
Ireland
Best movies:
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
Far and Away (1992)
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
Ben Aris
UK
Best movies:
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Savage Messiah (1972)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)