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What a Carve Up! is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Pat Jackson released in USA on 12 september 1962 with Michael Gough
What a Carve Up! (1961)
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Add to a movie listWhat a Carve Up! is a 1961 British comedy horror film directed by Pat Jackson. It was released in the United States in 1962 as No Place Like Homicide.
The film was loosely based on the novel The Ghoul by Frank King. A previous version titled The Ghoul was filmed in 1933 by Gaumont-British Pictures.
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The relatives of Uncle Gabriel are summoned to an old country house in the middle of moorlands in Yorkshire to hear the reading of his will. They all stay in the mansion overnight, and one by one the guests are murdered. The remaining guests must solve the mystery as to who is committing these murders before they too are killed.Actors
Michael Gough
(Fisk - the Butler)
Sid James
(Sid Butler)
Kenneth Connor
(Ernie Broughton)
Shirley Eaton
(Linda Dickson)
Donald Pleasence
(Everett Sloane)
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