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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 a large ensemble cast. [1] The screenplay was by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the 1889 novel The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.
Location filming of The Wrong Box. Brian Godwin was ‘on set’ during the filming of this movie in 1966 together with his trusty, pre digital, 35mm film camera and has kindly agreed to share his shots with us. The white apparition is John Mills moving across during a timed exposure.
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.
- (4.1K)
- Comedy, Crime
- Bryan Forbes
- 1966-07-01
The Wrong Box (1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
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....
- (17)
- Comedy
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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. Bryan Forbes.
