Charming film with a special Oscar a-piece for Jon Whiteley and Vincent Winter. Here the star who should have known better is Pat O'Brien playing an alcoholic reporter who confesses to the murder of his editor in order to get money from the real killer to pay for his son's operation. And if that synopsis doesn't put you off then Tommy Steele's debut performance just might. Ealing comedy without the cosiness and sentimentality - this is black, sophisticated and witty. Alec Guinness plays eight members of a family bumped off by Dennis Price's black sheep in his rise to a dukedom.
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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. Script adapt . Charles Bennett, A.R. Rawlinson, Sidney Gilliat .