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What a Carve Up! is a 1961 British comedy-horror film directed by Pat Jackson and starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, and Shirley Eaton. It was released in the United States in 1962 as No Place Like Homicide. It was loosely based on the 1928 novel The Ghoul by Frank King.
What a Carve Up! is a satirical novel by Jonathan Coe, published in the UK by Viking Press in April 1994. It was published in the United States by Alfred A Knopf in January 1995 under the title The Winshaw Legacy: or, What a Carve Up!
- Jonathan Coe
- 1994
What A Carve Up! is a 1961 British comedy film starring Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, and Shirley Eaton. Like Dentist on the Job (from the same year), it might be called an unofficial Carry On, since it features some of the same cast members and same style of humour.
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Check out the official trailer for the digital production of What A Carve Up! by Henry Filloux-Bennett, based on Jonathan Coe’s critically acclaimed satirica...
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- Barn Theatre
Apr 28, 1994 · What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe. 4.11. 12,069 ratings855 reviews. If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced this shamelessly entertaining novel, which introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family in England--and is certainly the vilest.
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- Paperback
The family has its hooks into almost every aspect of British life in the 1980s: there’s an art dealer, a very cruel factory farmer, a politician, an arms dealer, a poisonous newspaper columnist. It’s very complicated, because the timelines are fractured, and there are coincidences everywhere.
Carry on regulars Sid James and Kenneth Connor star in an old dark house comedy in the hope of inheriting a fortune. The script works well and goes for cheap...
- Comedy
