The Wrong Box
Overview
This fine black comedy features an all-star cast. Two brothers attempt to do each other in with extremely elaborate methods so they can become the sole heir to a large estate.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Bryan Forbes - Director
John Mills
Ralph Richardson
Michael Caine
Peter Cook
Dudley Moore
Peter Sellers
Wilfrid Lawson
Thorley Walters
Gerald Sim
Peter Graves
Details
- Format: DVD (Manufactured on Demand)
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 043396368422
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: Not Rated
- Release Date: November 2010
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
The last survivors of a tontine (an old-fashioned lottery-based insurance) are two elderly Victorian brothers who try to murder each other for the inheritance.
Notes:
Color by Technicolor.
"Certain funeral and military airs played by her majesty Queen Victoria's Temperance Seven, who actually number 8."
Film debut for actors/comedians Dudley Moore and Peter Cook.
Released theatrically in the USA May 26, 1966.
Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] delicious black comedy....The reason to see it is the array of grotesque comic cameos....Hugely underrated." - 09/01/2007 Empire, p.161
