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Key Details

Release StatusReleased
Release Date1964-03-15
Languageen
Runtime1h 34m
Production

Pax Films

5.0(4)
•1964•1h 34m

A Jolly Bad Fellow

"THEY ALL DIED LAUGHING"

ComedyCrime

Overview

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.

Director
Don Chaffey
Writing & Screenplay
Robert HamerDonald Taylor
Cinematography
Gerald Gibbs

Principal Cast

18 credited
Leo McKern
Leo McKernProfessor Kerris Bowles-Ottery
Janet Munro
Janet MunroDelia Brooks
Maxine Audley
Maxine AudleyClarinda Bowles-Ottery
Dennis Price
Dennis PriceDr. John Hughes
Miles Malleson
Miles MallesonDr. Woolley
Mervyn Johns
Mervyn JohnsWillie Pugh-Smith
Leonard Rossiter
Leonard RossiterDr. Fisher
Jennifer White
Jennifer WhiteTV Make-Up Girl
Patricia Jessel
Patricia JesselMrs. Pugh-Smith
Duncan Macrae
Duncan MacraeDr. Brass

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