The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

6.4/ 10

TMDB Rating

70

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1966

Release Year

105 min

Runtime

Comedy

Overview

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

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Keywords

based on novel or book

dark comedy

victorian england

queen of england

19th century

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Cast

John Mills

John Mills

Masterman Finsbury

Ralph Richardson

Ralph Richardson

Joseph Finsbury

Michael Caine

Michael Caine

Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury

Peter Cook

Peter Cook

Morris Finsbury

Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore

John Finsbury

Nanette Newman

Nanette Newman

Julia Finsbury

Tony Hancock

Tony Hancock

Detective

Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

Doctor Pratt

Cicely Courtneidge

Cicely Courtneidge

Major Martha

Wilfrid Lawson

Wilfrid Lawson

Peacock

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 14, 2023

6

6/10

Bryan Forbes is to be commended for assembling a glittering cast in this rather plodding adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It centres around the fate of a £20,000 fortune - the result of a tontine between 20 families who each invested £1,000 in a lottery than would provide the entire fun…