A Jolly Bad Fellow

A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)

THEY ALL DIED LAUGHING

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.

Date of release
1964-03-15
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Director
Don Chaffey

Casting

Interesting facts

A Jolly Bad Fellow is a 1964 British black comedy film directed by Don Chaffey and starring Leo McKern and Janet Munro. It was written by Robert Hamer and Donald Taylor based on C.E. Vulliamy's 1952 novel Don among the Dead Men.

Production

The film was based on C.E. Vulliamy's 1952 black comedy novel Don among the Dead Men, about an Oxford don who murders off rival colleagues. In 1962 it was announced film rights had been purchased by Michael Balcon, who assigned the job of writing the script to Andrew Sinclair, author of The Breaking of Bumbo. It was going to be made by Pax Films who had a deal with Bryanston and Brittania Films.

The script was eventually credited to Robert Hamer who had made Kind Hearts and Coronets. The film ended up being the first lead role for Leo McKern, who was usually a character actor. The movie was meant to be in the style of the Ealing comedies. Filming started June 1963 at Shepperton.

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