This is Alfred Hitchcock's zany, offbeat suspense comedy about a corpse that very definitely won't lie down. Endearing portrayals by John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn and Mildred Natwick, filled both with impishness and dramatic sense, key in perfectly with the black hijinks. And Robert Burks' colour photography of autumnal settings is some of the best ever seen. The dialogue is surprisingly risqué for a Fifties' film, but Hitchcock's brilliant handling of a corpse being buried and dug up six times in all makes the film a triumphant and very unusual laughter-raiser. A winner - and no trouble.

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