WHAT A CARVE UP 1961 B/W British Comedy-Horror Film

Starring Sid James as Syd Butler, a bookmaker who acts as Ernest's legal advisor, Kenneth Connor as Ernest Broughton, a proofreader and nephew of the deceased, and Donald Pleasence as Everett Sloane, a solicitor. It was released in the United States in 1962 as No Place Like Homicide. The film was loosely based on the 1928 novel The Ghoul by Frank King. A previous version, titled The Ghoul, was filmed in 1933 by Gaumont-British Pictures. The relatives of Gabriel Broughton are summoned to Blackshaw Towers, an old, isolated country house in the middle of moorlands in Yorkshire, to hear the reading of his will. Gabriel's nervous nephew Ernest Broughton brings along his flatmate Syd Butler for support. At the large, gloomy mansion, they meet Guy Broughton, Ernest's cousin; Malcolm Broughton, a piano player who claims everyone is "quite mad"; Janet Broughton and Dr Edward Broughton, Guy's sister and father, respectively; Emily Broughton, a dotty old woman who believes the First World War is still on; and Linda Dixon, Gabriel's nurse.