It might look like a Carry On film. It is more Cat and the Canary.
What a Carve Up! is farcical murder mystery in an isolated country house.
Ernest Broughton (Kenneth Connor) and his flatmate Syd Butler (Sydney James) go up to a mansion somewhere in the Yorkshire moors after the death of Ernest's uncle, Gabriel Broughton.
Ernest has been invited by his uncle's creepy solicitor. At the ancestral home he meets the various eccentric Broughton family and during the reading of the will, the family members get nothing.
During the night, creepy things happen and people end up dead. The remaining guests need to find the killer.
The shtick between Connors and James is very familiar as they act like an anglicised Abbot and Costello.
It is silly nonsense but a cast that includes Michael Gough, Dennis Price, Donald Pleasence and Shirley Eaton give the cliched script their very best. Look out from a guest cameo from a pop singer.
What a Carve Up! is farcical murder mystery in an isolated country house.
Ernest Broughton (Kenneth Connor) and his flatmate Syd Butler (Sydney James) go up to a mansion somewhere in the Yorkshire moors after the death of Ernest's uncle, Gabriel Broughton.
Ernest has been invited by his uncle's creepy solicitor. At the ancestral home he meets the various eccentric Broughton family and during the reading of the will, the family members get nothing.
During the night, creepy things happen and people end up dead. The remaining guests need to find the killer.
The shtick between Connors and James is very familiar as they act like an anglicised Abbot and Costello.
It is silly nonsense but a cast that includes Michael Gough, Dennis Price, Donald Pleasence and Shirley Eaton give the cliched script their very best. Look out from a guest cameo from a pop singer.