The Wrong Box poster

The Wrong Box( 1966)

TV-MAComedy
65%
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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      John Mills

      Masterman Finsbury

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      Ralph Richardson

      Joseph Finsbury

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      Michael Caine

      Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury

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      Peter Cook

      Morris Finsbury

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      Dudley Moore

      John Finsbury

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      Nanette Newman

      Julia Finsbury

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      Tony Hancock

      Detective

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      Peter Sellers

      Doctor Pratt

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      Cicely Courtneidge

      Major Martha

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      Wilfrid Lawson

      Peacock

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      Thorley Walters

      Patience

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      Gerald Sim

      1st Undertaker

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      Peter Graves

      Military Officer

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      Irene Handl

      Mrs. Hackett

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      Norman Bird

      Clergyman

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      John Le Mesurier

      Doctor Slattery

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      Hilton Edwards

      Lawyer

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      Norman Rossington

      1st Rough

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      Diane Clare

      Mercy

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      Tutte Lemkow

      Strangler

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      Jeremy Lloyd

      Brian Allen Harvey

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      James Villiers

      Sydney Whitcombe Sykes

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      Graham Stark

      Ian Scott Fife

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      Dick Gregory

      Leicester Young Fielding

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      Nicholas Parsons

      Alan Frazer Scrope

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      Willoughby Goddard

      James Whyte Wragg

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      Valentine Dyall

      Oliver Pike Harmsworth

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      Leonard Rossiter

      Vyvyan Alistair Montague

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      Hamilton Dyce

      Derek Lloyd Peter Digby

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      Timothy Bateson

      Clerk

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      Donald Oliver

      Gunner Sergeant

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      Totti Truman Taylor

      Lady at Launching

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      Jeremy Roughton

      Bugler

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      Frank Singuineau

      Native Bearer

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      Michael Lees

      Young Digby

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      Avis Bunnage

      Queen Victoria

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      Gwendolyn Watts

      Maidservant

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      Vanda Godsell

      Mrs. Goodge

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      Marianne Stone

      Spinster

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      John Junkin

      1st Engine Driver

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      Roy Murray

      Stoker

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      Donald Tandy

      Ticket Collector

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      Lionel Gamlin

      2nd Engine Driver

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      Martin Terry

      Stoker

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      Michael Bird

      Countryman

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      George Selway

      Railway Vanman

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      Josef Behrmann

      Railway Vanman

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      Thomas Gallagher

      2nd Rough

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      Charlie Bird

      Bonn's Vanmen

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      Tony Thawnton

      2nd Undertaker

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      Reg Lye

      3rd Undertaker

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      George Spence

      Workman in Road

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      Penny Brahms

      Twittering Female on the Moors

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      Andrea Allan

      Girl on Train

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      David Lodge

      Corpse Remover

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      Juliet Mills

      Mannish Woman on Train

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      André Morell

      Club Butler

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      Maria Kazan

      Twittering Female on the Moors

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Sep 14 2023
    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 fund for whichever of their young children survived! Over the course of time, nature takes it's course until, sixty years later, we are left with two brothers. "Masterman" (John Mills) and "Joseph" (Sir Ralph Richardson). The former is a conspiring old fellow who really cares about the cash - a feeling ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • based on novel or book
    • dark comedy
    • victorian england
    • queen of england
    • 19th century