A rich black comedy, set in London just before the turn of the century, and concerning the last two (elderly) survivors of a bizarre lottery. The fun gets increasingly wilder, as Grandpa John Mills, superbly made up, and rushing about in a nightshirt like an aged imp, makes frenzied attempts to assassinate Grandpa Ralph Richardson and collect the money. Also very funny are Peter Sellers, as a doctor who has cats around his house the way some people have mice; and Wilfrid Lawson, in his last film, as the family's decrepit butler.

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