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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
Jun 1, 2020 · The Wrong Box is a 1966 British comedy film produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the 1889 novel The Wrong Box by Robert...
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A comedy film based on a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, starring John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine and Peter Sellers. See the full list of actors, writers, directors, producers and other crew members on IMDb.
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....
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- John Mills
- Bryan Forbes
- 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.
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Wrong Box, The -- (Movie Clip) Masterman, Peacock First scene for medical student Michael (Michael Caine) who fails to discern that grandfather Masterman (John Mills) has not died, then must humor demented butler Peacock (Wifrid Lawson) in The Wrong Box, 1966.
