A perennial favorite featuring Alec Guinness' famous performance in which he plays eight separate roles in the black comedy of a castoff member (Dennis Price) of an aristocratic family who sets out to eliminate them all. The sardonic script was written by director Robert Hamer, one of the Ealing Studios' best writer/directors. "The film is heartless and that is the secret of its elegance...as the murderer takes us further into his confidence with each foul deed, we positively look forward to his next success" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker).