A broke British nobleman targets his Canadian uncle, but other relatives get in the way.
Henry Clitterbern
Uncle George Clitterbern
Edith Clitterbern
Alice
Edward
Grannie (Victoria Clitterbern)
Albert Clitterbern
Constance Clitterbern
Gilrony
Nigel Patrick and John Paxton have done quite a neat job with Daix' play about an uncle - in this version, a wealthy Canadian - called "George" (Charles Coburn) who comes to Britain to visit his landed, but impoverished family headed by Patrick ("Sir Henry"). The family see this as in ideal opportunity to sort their finances out, and that means that their unsuspecting guest could be in quite a bit of peril! Except, that is, that the would-be assassins couldn't organise the proverbial piss-up in the brewery - indeed their efforts to relieve the old man of his life and his fortune have far more ...