A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)

Directed by

Don Chaffey

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A university professor keeps poisoning his colleagues to move up in his career. This is a British black comedy from 1964.

darkly comicsatiricaloffbeatquirkyplayfuldeadpanwrymischievous

What happens

A Jolly Bad Fellow (U.S. title: They All Died Laughing; also known as Don Among the Dead Men) 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. A university professor advances his career through habitually poisoning his colleagues at the university. Filmink called it "an attempt by Michael Balcon to recapture the magic of Ealing" and gave a rare leading film role to Leo McKern. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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