Search - A Jolly Bad Fellow on DVD

Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1964 DVD Release: 10/21/2008 Format: DVD - Black and White Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 31 mins Studio: WHAM! USA Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy, Crime, Black Comedy, Crime Comedy

They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college professor, of the addlepated rather than absentminded variety. McKern has come to the conclusion that certain people are leeching off society, and the world would be well rid of them. He heads for his laboratory to create the means of "purging" these useless people. He comes up with a poison that prompts his victims to laugh hysterically before joining the Choir Invisible. A little more heavy-handed than the British "dark farces" of the 1950s, They All Died Laughing was originally released in England as A Jolly Bad Fellow. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Leo McKern - Prof. Bowles-Ottery
Janet Munro - Delia Brooks
Maxine Audley - Clarinda Bowles-Ottery
Duncan MacRae - Dr. Brass
Dennis Price - Prof. Hughes