Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
- prison
- jealousy
- based on novel or book
- italian
- poison
- widow
- gallows
- dark comedy
- hot air balloon
- duke
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Dennis Price
Louis Mazzini / His Father
Alec Guinness
The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / T
Joan Greenwood
Sibella
Valerie Hobson
Edith D'Ascoyne
- Audrey Fildes — Mama
- Miles Malleson — The Hangman
- Clive Morton — The Prison Governor
- John Penrose — Lionel Holland
- Cecil Ramage — Crown Counsel
- Hugh Griffith — Lord High Steward
- John Salew — Mr. Perkins
- Eric Messiter — Inspector Burgoyne
- Lyn Evans — The Farmer
- Barbara Leake — The Schoolmistress
- Peggy Ann Clifford — Maud Redpole
- Directed
- Robert Hamer
- Written
- John Dighton, Robert Hamer
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 616 ratings
- Studio
- Ealing Studios, J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Michael Balcon Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
