Production
Guinness was originally only offered four D'Ascoyne parts, recollecting: "I read 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!?'"
The location used for Chalfont, the family home of the d'Ascoynes, is Leeds Castle in Kent, England.
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