Alec Guinness plays eight members of a family bumped off by Dennis Price's black sheep in his rise to a dukedom. Script adapt . Charlie Chaplin is the King who is exiled in America and comes up against the full force of capitalism and the communist witchhunts of the fifties. As a satire it would have worked better if it had been funny and less preachy. Life in a tough Caribbean prison camp, with Conrad Veidt as the prisoner who tries to get justice.
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Charles Bennett, A.R. Rawlinson, Sidney Gilliat . Tolerable version of the H. Rider Haggard novel. Paul Robeson 's star presence and a witty script lift it above the ordinary. Anna Lee's ing nue is pretty dreadful but the rest of the cast acquit themselves well. Some of the backgrounds are unconvincing and it's clear that only the stand-ins got to film in Africa, but it mostly looks good.