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| What a Carve Up! | |
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| Directed by | Pat Jackson |
| Written by | Ray Cooney Tony Hilton |
| Produced by | Robert S. Baker Monty Berman |
| Starring | Sid James Kenneth Connor Shirley Eaton |
| Cinematography | Monty Berman |
| Edited by | Gordon Pilkington |
| Music by | Muir Mathieson |
Production company | New World Films Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Regal Films International (U.K.) Embassy Pictures (U.S.) |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
What a Carve Up! is a 1961 British comedy-horror film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, and Shirley Eaton.[1] It was released in the United States in 1962 as No Place Like Homicide.[2] It was written by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton, loosely based on the 1928 novel The Ghoul by Frank King.[3] A previous version, titled The Ghoul, was filmed in 1933 by Gaumont-British Pictures.[4]
The film is set in Yorkshire, in a moorland area. Following the supposed death of the latest owner of an isolated country house, his family gathers there for the reading of his will. They learn that they are disinherited, and then find themselves trapped in the house. The family and guests start being killed one by one, and they suspect that the house's owner has faked his death.
The film was used extensively within Jonathan Coe's 1994 satirical novel What a Carve Up! The book's protagonist, Michael Owen, becomes obsessed with the film after first watching it as a young boy, and the last part of the book follows the plot of the film.
- ^ "What a Carve Up!". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
- ^ "What a Carve-Up! (1962) - Pat Jackson - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. ISBN 9781317740636 – via Google Books.
- ^ "What a Carve Up (No PLace Like Homicide)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 20 July 2016.