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The Wrong Box (1966)
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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! Director:Bryan ForbesWriters:Robert Louis Stevenson (suggested by a novel by), Lloyd Osbourne (suggested by a novel by), and 2 more credits » |
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Brian Allen Harvey
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James Villiers | ... |
Sydney Whitcombe Sykes
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Graham Stark | ... |
Ian Scott Fife
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Nicholas Parsons | ... |
Alan Frazer Scrope
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Willoughby Goddard | ... |
James Whyte Wragg
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Valentine Dyall | ... |
Oliver Pike Harmsworth
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Leonard Rossiter | ... |
Vyvyan Alistair Montague
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Hamilton Dyce | ... |
Derek Lloyd Peter Digby
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Hilton Edwards | ... |
Lawyer
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Timothy Bateson | ... |
Clerk
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Donald Oliver | ... |
Gunner Sergeant
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Totti Truman Taylor | ... |
Lady at Launching
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Jeremy Roughton | ... |
Bugler
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Frank Singuineau | ... |
Native Bearer
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Michael Lees | ... |
Young Digby
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Storyline
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. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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Virtuous maidens...cunning cousins...dastardly deeds...bodies in barrels...and boxes and boxes of boxes!Genres:
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[the sword descends too fast]
Queen Victoria: Oh. We are frightfully sorry, Sir Robert.
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Continuity: Opening the door to leave his brother's house after nearly being hit with a thrown vase, the Ralph Richardson character has two flowers in his left hand; there's then a cut to an exterior shot showing him emerging from the house flowerless. See more »Quotes
Queen Victoria: In recognition of your many and varied services to the crown, I dub thee...[the sword descends too fast]
Queen Victoria: Oh. We are frightfully sorry, Sir Robert.
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