Top Billed Cast

John Mills
Masterman Finsbury
Ralph Richardson
Joseph Finsbury
Michael Caine
Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury
Peter Cook
Morris Finsbury
Dudley Moore
John Finsbury
Nanette Newman
Julia Finsbury
Tony Hancock
Detective
Peter Sellers
Doctor Pratt
Cicely Courtneidge
Major Martha
Wilfrid Lawson
Peacock
Thorley Walters
Patience
Gerald Sim
1st Undertaker
Peter Graves
Military Officer
Irene Handl
Mrs. Hackett
Norman Bird
Clergyman
John Le Mesurier
Doctor Slattery
Hilton Edwards
Lawyer
Norman Rossington
1st Rough
Diane Clare
Mercy
Tutte Lemkow
Strangler
Jeremy Lloyd
Brian Allen Harvey
James Villiers
Sydney Whitcombe Sykes
Graham Stark
Ian Scott Fife
Dick Gregory
Leicester Young Fielding
Nicholas Parsons
Alan Frazer Scrope
Willoughby Goddard
James Whyte Wragg
Valentine Dyall
Oliver Pike Harmsworth
Leonard Rossiter
Vyvyan Alistair Montague
Hamilton Dyce
Derek Lloyd Peter Digby
Timothy Bateson
Clerk
Donald Oliver
Gunner Sergeant
Totti Truman Taylor
Lady at Launching
Jeremy Roughton
Bugler
Frank Singuineau
Native Bearer
Michael Lees
Young Digby
Avis Bunnage
Queen Victoria
Gwendolyn Watts
Maidservant
Vanda Godsell
Mrs. Goodge
Marianne Stone
Spinster
John Junkin
1st Engine Driver
Roy Murray
Stoker
Donald Tandy
Ticket Collector
Lionel Gamlin
2nd Engine Driver
Martin Terry
Stoker
Michael Bird
Countryman
George Selway
Railway Vanman
Josef Behrmann
Railway Vanman
Thomas Gallagher
2nd Rough
Charlie Bird
Bonn's Vanmen
Tony Thawnton
2nd Undertaker
Reg Lye
3rd Undertaker
George Spence
Workman in Road
Penny Brahms
Twittering Female on the Moors
Andrea Allan
Girl on Train
David Lodge
Corpse Remover
Juliet Mills
Mannish Woman on Train
André Morell
Club Butler
Maria Kazan
Twittering Female on the Moors

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Sep 14 2023

Bryan Forbes is to be commended for assembling a glittering cast in this rather plodding adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It centres around the fate of a £20,000 fortune - the result of a tontine between 20 families who each invested £1,000 in a lottery than would provide the entire fund for whichever of their young children survived! Over the course of time, nature takes it's course until, sixty years later, we are left with two brothers. "Masterman" (John Mills) and "Joseph" (Sir Ralph Richardson). The former is a conspiring old fellow who really cares about the cash - a feeling ...