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    Wrong Box, The (1966)

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    Bryan Forbes’ large-screen colour venture into the realms of black comedy is a story set in the Victorian era about two rival brothers (Ralph Richardson and John Mills) and their beneficiaries fighting it out to the death for the sake of the lottery fortune dangled between them.

    Helping the irascible, poverty-stricken Masterman Finsbury (Mills) is his shy grandson Michael (Michael Caine).

    Opposing them are his eccentric younger brother, Joseph Finsbury (Richardson), and a pair of greedy nephews, Morris (Peter Cook) and John (Dudley Moore).

    Julia (Nanette Newman) is in love with Michael, and unbeknown to her, he also adores her.

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    Morris and John believe that Joseph is killed in a train crash and not wanting the authorities to find out, they ship home what they believe to be their uncle’s body – and hence Michael finds a coffin containing a perfect stranger on his doorstep.

    Before you can shout ‘fratricide’, the landscape is cluttered with corpses, a bumbling detective (Tony Hancock) and a mad surgeon (Peter Sellers).

    Based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, the film is rife with plots, counter-plots, mix-ups and a wild chase with lots of character cameos, gags, jokes and slapstick sequences amusingly tied together.

    wrongbox_007Masterman Finsbury
    John Mills
    Joseph Finsbury

    Ralph Richardson
    Michael Finsbury

    Michael Caine
    Morris Finsbury

    Peter Cook
    John Finsbury

    Dudley Moore
    Julia Finsbury

    Nanette Newman
    Detective

    Tony Hancock
    Doctor Pratt

    Peter Sellers
    Brian Allen Harvey

    Jeremy Lloyd
    Sydney Whitcombe Sykes

    James Villiers
    Ian Scott Fife

    Graham Stark
    Alan Frazer Scrope

    Nicholas Parsons
    Peacock

    Wilfrid Lawson
    Mrs. Hackett

    Irene Handl
    Dr. Slattery

    John Le Mesurier
    Vyvyan Alistair Montague

    Leonard Rossiter
    Queen Victoria

    Avis Bunnage
    Military Officer

    Peter Graves
    Engine Driver

    John Junkin

    Director
    Bryan Forbes

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