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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.
The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson.
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The Wrong Box. The Finsbury brothers, Masterman (John Mills) and Joseph (Ralph Richardson), are the last surviving members of a tontine that will pay a huge sum to whomever lives longest....
- Comedy
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.
Wrong Box, The -- (Movie Clip) Tontine Lawyer (Hilton Edwards) and clerk (Timothy Bateson) perform their duties administering the tontine, on which will hinge the events of The Wrong Box, 1966, from a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.
The Wrong Box, 1889. Read the Virtual Book. Summary. The Wrong Box (written in collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne) is a humorous tale of misunderstandings, drunkenness, attempted fraud, false identities and other mishaps. Joseph and Masterman Finsbury are brothers.
Feb 25, 2006 · Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WRONG BOX ***. ***** This file should be named 1585-h.htm or 1585-h.zip *****. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/5/8/1585/.
1966 · 1 hr 46 min. TV-PG. Comedy · Crime. Two elderly brothers await the news that the other has died, so the remaining one can have all the money made through their parents’ investments. Subtitles: English. Starring: John Mills Michael Caine Ralph Richardson Peter Cook Dudley Moore Nanette Newman Tony Hancock Peter Sellers.
