The Ruling Class (1972) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
The family butler with Communist leanings who is falsely framed by Jack for the murder of Lady Claire.
Jack's psychiatrist who fails to cure his delusions through therapy. He orchestrates a final electroshock treatment using another patient, but suffers a nervous breakdown after discovering Jack's murd...
The previous Earl who dies from accidental asphyxiation, prompting Jack to inherit the title.
A fellow mental patient who shares Jack's delusion of being Christ. He is used by Dr. Herder to administer electroshock therapy to Jack, successfully breaking his Jesus persona.
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Tucker is identified as the family butler, while the 13th Earl of Gurney is the head of the household whose death begins the succession crisis.
Dr. Herder introduces McKyle, a mental patient who believes himself to be Christ, as part of an attempted treatment for the new earl.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Tucker is falsely framed for a household murder, while Dr. Herder later suffers a breakdown after realizing what the new earl has done.
A paranoid aristocrat gains social power while institutions repeatedly mistake dangerous delusion for sanity.
Directed by Peter Medak
The Ruling Class (1972) · 6.5/10 · comedy, drama
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