The Wrong Box

Dir. Bryan Forbes, English, 1966

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Sun 2 December 2007 // 19:30 / Cinema

Hilarious black comedy with a host of excellent classic actors: Peter Cooke, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, Michael Caine to name a few...Two brothers, each eligible to inherit a trust, go to fiendish lengths in their determination to be the sole survivor.

wrong boxThis hilarious black comedy is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale. The last beneficiaries of a huge inhesritance, the two Finsbury brothers, will stop at nothing to outlive each other – and win the fortune. Helping the irascible, poverty stricken Masterman Finsbury (John Mills) is his shy grandson Michael (Michael Caine). Opposing them are his eccentric younger brother, Joseph Finsbury (Ralph Richardson), and a pair of greedy nephews, Morris (Peter Cook) and John (Dudley Moore).

£4/£3