Arguably the best of Ealing, and re-released recently to great acclaim, this wonderful black comedy of manners stars Alec Guinness famously playing eight member of an aristocratic family. But Dennis Price almost steals the film as the suburban draper who targets the D’Ascoynes in an attempt to get his inheritance. Valerie Hobson’s role pre-figures her fate as John Profumo’s wife. Robert Hamer’s masterpiece.