Alec Guinness (left, dressed as General Lord Rufus d’Ascoyne) with producer Michael Balcon
Director Robert Hamer, left, delivers his instructions to Joan Greenwood and Dennis Price
Greenwood autographing photographs
Greenwood with cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, who would go on to shoot
The Servant, The Great Gatsby and
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Greenwood, Price and Hamer
Price and Valerie Hobson
Price, Hobson and Hamer
Guiness waiting for his call
Costume designer Anthony Mendleson, with Greenwood
Preparing for the murder of Lady Agatha d’Ascoyne (Hobson)
Price and Hamer
Greenwood having a cup of tea
I read [the screenplay] on a beach in France, collapsed with laughter on the first page, and didn’t even bother to get to the end of the script. I went straight back to the hotel and sent a telegram saying, ‘Why four parts? Why not eight!? — Alec Guinness
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