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It's not delightful.
Guinness memoirs recount how he felt ashamed engaging in painful slapstick in an 'indifferent film' to fulfil his Rank contract.
He says the Rank's Chief Accountant John Davis was the 'objectionable' man who forced him to do 'pratfalls'.
He isn't likeable.
He's a criminal and cocaine-dealer.
It might be interesting to know who the original actor was supposed to be. IMDB tells us that "Trevor Howard was cast at very short notice after the actor first cast dropped out."
And similarly, Griffith Jones as "Narcy" is another piece of odd casting against type.
He was wooden and haggard.
The original director (John Huston) wanted Gregory Peck for the role.
(Peck would have been wooden but an attractive lure for Deborah Kerr.)