

What a Carve Up!
It's Corpus Delectable.......
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.
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- Theatrical12 Sept 1962
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- Theatrical15 Sept 1961
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What a Carve Up! was released on 15 September 1961.
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2- J8/10
John Chard
10/6/2019
Ring Madame Tussauds and ask if anyone is missing. When Uncle Gabriel dies, all his relatives are summoned to an old country mansion in the middle of nowhere to hear the reading of his will. Once there, tho, somebody starts murdering them one by one and the remaining group must solve the mystery or expect not to see the night out. What a Carve Up! is adapted from Frank King's novel The Ghoul and stars Sid Jame…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
12/30/2025
This is one of the few films that cast Kenneth Connor in a leading role, and by and large, he does an half decent job with this rather amusing, if derivative, comedy. When his uncle dies, he is invited to visit his stately pile to discuss an inheritance. He takes his mate, "Syd" (Sidney James) on his trip, but on arrival discovers that there are quite a few potential heirs to the fortune... It develops a little like …
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