Harry Andrews – Ralph Gurney, 13th Earl of Gurney.James Villiers – Dinsdale, Sir Charles and Lady Claire's son.Peter O'Toole – Jack Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney.Her terrified scream is matched by the sound of a baby cooing "I'm Jack, I'm Jack", suggesting that their son – the heir presumptive – has inherited Jack's madness. That night, he murders Grace for expressing her love for him. Their enthusiasm contrasts with the unfavourable reaction when Jack believed he was Christ. When seen through his eyes, his colleagues – singing ' Onward, Christian Soldiers' – appear to be rotting corpses. His colleagues applaud wildly, completely unaware the speech is the ranting of a lunatic. Jack assumes his place in the House of Lords with a fiery speech in favour of capital and corporal punishment. Herder has a nervous breakdown upon realizing what Jack has done. Sir Charles suffers a debilitating stroke shortly afterward, and Dr. He frames the Communist family butler, Tucker ( Arthur Lowe), for the murder. Jack murders Lady Claire in a fit of rage when the aging woman tries to seduce him. He is once again thwarted when the psychiatrist discovers that Jack was a fellow Old Etonian, bonds with him and declares him sane. Sir Charles sends for a court-appointed psychiatrist ( Graham Crowden) to evaluate Jack, confident that his nephew will be sent to an asylum for life. His family takes this to mean that he has returned to his senses, but in reality he now believes himself to be Jack the Ripper. The plan works, and as Grace is delivered of a healthy baby boy, Jack proclaims "I'm Jack, I'm Jack". The night his wife goes into labour, Herder makes a last effort at curing Jack he introduces Jack to McKyle ( Nigel Green), a patient who also believes himself to be Christ-or as the patient puts it, "The High Voltage Messiah"-who subjects an unwitting Jack to electroshock therapy. Herder attempts to cure him through intensive psychotherapy, to no avail Jack so thoroughly believes that he is the "God of Love" that he dismisses any suggestion to the contrary as insane. Herder ( Michael Bryant), to persuade him to cure Jack quickly. She also begins sleeping with Jack's psychiatrist, Dr. Jack gains another ally in Sir Charles' wife, Lady Claire ( Coral Browne), who hates her husband and befriends Jack just to spite him. His unscrupulous uncle, Sir Charles ( William Mervyn), marries him to his mistress, Grace ( Carolyn Seymour), in hopes of producing an heir and putting his nephew in an institution the plan fails, however, when Grace falls in love with Jack. When faced with unpalatable facts (such as his identity as the 14th Earl), Jack puts them in his " galvanized pressure cooker" and they disappear. Jack, a paranoid schizophrenic, thinks he is Jesus Christ and shocks his family and friends with his talk of returning to the world to bring it love and charity, not to mention his penchant for breaking out into song and dance routines and sleeping upright on a cross. Following the death from accidental asphyxiation of Ralph Gurney, the 13th Earl of Gurney ( Harry Andrews), Jack Gurney ( Peter O'Toole) becomes the 14th Earl of Gurney.
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