What a Carve Up!

What a Carve Up! (1961)

It's Corpus Delectable.......

Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.

Date of release
1961-09-15
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Horror, Comedy, Thriller, Mystery
Director
Pat Jackson

Casting

Interesting facts

What a Carve Up! is a 1961 British comedy horror film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, and Shirley Eaton. It was released in the United States in 1962 as No Place Like Homicide. It was written by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton, loosely based on the 1928 novel The Ghoul by Frank King. A previous adaptation, titled The Ghoul, was filmed in 1933 by Gaumont-British Pictures.

Production

Filming took place at Twickenham starting 3 April 1961. It was the ninth film from Regal Films.

Production manager John Goodman recalled they were asked to make suggestions for the title. "So everything came in from 'There's no Ghoul like an Old Ghoul' and 'Ghoul's step in' and 'The Singing Ghoul' and God knows what! Eventually it came out as What a Carve Up!"

Although George Woodbridge plays Valerie Taylor's father, he was in fact five years younger than her.

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