This is laugh-out-loud funny. Clever hilarious dialogue, zany story. The students of a boys' school in 19th century England are told that their parents have enrolled them in a tontine. Each family put a sum of money into the tontine, and the last member alive will get the whole kitty. It's sort of like The Last Man's Club of which my grandpa Peter was a member with his First World War chums, but that was for a bottle of whiskey. The story then shows the very bizarre ways the members of the tontine meet their demise until only two are left, who are brothers who haven't spoken to each other in years. A young Michael Caine plays the grandson of one of the brothers. The rest of the movie is a madcap chase for the tontine. Peter Sellers has a small part as a drunk, dishonorable doctor. No matter how small the part, Peter Sellers is always unforgettable.
Review of The Wrong Box
