A brilliant film, one of my favourites. Alec Guinness playing eight parts. Look out for the reporter at the very end, although you will not recognise him it is Arthur Lowe.
One of my favourite films! I still have the DVD that was given free with a morning paper, back in the day when they did such things. Apparently they had to do a different ending for the American market, the memoirs were found and they also had to play down the extra maritals and the now racist language to save upsetting American sensitivities.
In this wonderful adaptation it's Harry Enfield who does the murdered family members very well, but the star turn is the main protagonist Louis Manzini played by Michael Kitchen with superb sang froid & elocution, the English is a joy.
The Parson: I always say that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer, without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.
I mis remembered the quote. Sorry.