The Man Who Liked Funerals

The Man Who Liked Funerals is a 1958 British 'B' [2] comedy film directed by David Eady and starring Leslie Phillips, Susan Beaumont and Bill Fraser.

In order to help a youth club which is under threat of closure, a man begins attending funerals where he blackmails the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them.

Monthly Film Bulletin said "This tepid farce fails to live up to the promise of either its original idea or the intriguing title.

Reining in the trademark charm, he plays a printer who attempts to fill the coffers of a struggling boys' club by blackmailing the relatives of recently departed bigwigs, whose scandalous (albeit forged) memoirs he threatens to publish.

They describe it as "fresh and gently funny", "consistently amusing, its plot worked out with some wit" and add that "its cast, amiably led by Phillips at the start of his starring career, enters into the spirit of the joke".