The Wrong Box
1966 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until only two brothers are left. One brother is watched by his nephews who will keep him alive at all costs, the other lives in ill health and poverty as the only support of his fairly stupid grandson. Statues and bodies are switched, in the wrong boxes until everyone is sure someone has died. Now if they can only make it seem as if the other brother died first, hundreds of thousands of pounds (in Victorian England when a pound was a pound) will be theirs.
Direction Bryan Forbes
Cast John Mills · Michael Caine · Ralph Richardson · Peter Cook · Dudley Moore · Nanette Newman · Tony Hancock · Peter Sellers · Cicely Courtneidge · Wilfrid Lawson · Thorley Walters · Gerald Sim · Peter Graves · Irene Handl · John Le Mesurier
Soundtrack John Barry
Screenplay Larry Gelbart · Burt Shevelove · Robert Louis Stevenson
Cinematography Gerry Turpin
Original title The Wrong Box
5.8
220 votes (FilmAffinity)
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