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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Alastair Sim | ... | Deniston Russell | |
| Fay Compton | ... | Agnes Russell | |
| Guy Middleton | ... | Simon Russell | |
| George Cole | ... | Herbert Russell | |
| Hugh Griffith | ... | Henry Augustus Russell | |
| Ernest Thesiger | ... | Endicott | |
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Beatrice Campbell | ... | Lucille Grayson |
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Mackenzie Ward | ... | Benson |
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A.E. Matthews | ... | Sir Charles Robson |
| Joyce Grenfell | ... | Elizabeth Robson aka Fluffy | |
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Eleanor Summerfield | ... | Sheila Wilcott |
| John Laurie | ... | Gordon Webb | |
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Veronica Hurst | ... | Joan Webb |
| Anthony Steel | ... | Roger Godfrey | |
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Charlotte Mitchell | ... | Ethel |
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Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month. As each sets out on their objective they find that quite apart from the promised riches, they are unexpectedly getting a lot out of the challenge. All except caddish Simon Russell, that is. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords:
meanness | practical joker | out of character | relative | instruction |Taglines:
He sets the whole world laughing ... there's even Laughter in Paradise !Genres:
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Country:
UKLanguage:
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11 November 1951 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Gelächter im Paradies See more »Company Credits
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Audrey Hepburn was originally offered one of the major female roles in this film, but was committed to a stage play and had to turn it down. She ended up with a bit role playing a sexy cigarette girl instead. See more »Goofs
When Deniston Russell visits the police station for the second time, he addresses the officer on duty as Inspector. However, the man has three arrow-shaped stripes on his shoulder, which clearly marks him as a Sergeant. Even if he didn't know the difference, one would expect the police officer to correct him. See more »Quotes
Herbert Russell: It's impossible. Not even a real gangster would dare to point a gun at Mr. Wag-stoff. Or point anything at Mr. Wag-stoff.See more »
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This has got to be a classic of Ealing comedies.
Alistair Sim is at his best, the scene with the window (Fact-he ad-libbed most of the scene too)is proof that actors like him are few in between.
I saw this when I was a nipper as my father said that he enjoyed it when it first came out and even though I've seen it quiet a few times it's still fresh and amusing. Watch it and anything else with Mr Sims, this is British at it's best.