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The Wrong Box is a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes and starring John Mills, Ralph Richardson and an large ensemble cast. The screenplay was by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the 1889 novel The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.
The Wrong Box: Directed by Bryan Forbes. With John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook. 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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- Comedy, Crime
- Bryan Forbes
- 1966-07-01
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In Victorian London, two elderly brothers, Masterman and Joseph Finsbury, are bound together by a tontine, a financial arrangement whereby the last surviving member inherits a large fortune.
- Bryan Forbes, Christopher Dryhurst
- John Mills
20 young boys join a tontine: their parents each deposited £1,000 into a trust and the last of them alive gets all the money. Several decades have passed and only two are left alive: Masterman and Joseph Finsbury - brothers. Masterman hatches a plan to lure Joseph to his home...and kill him.
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The original trailer in high definition of The Wrong Box directed by Bryan Forbes and starring John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson and Peter Cook.Blu...
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