The Wrong Box
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.
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Adventure, Comedy, Crime
1966
105 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : The Wrong Box
- Duration : 105 min
- Languages : English, Swahili
- Writers : Robert Louis Stevenson (suggested by a novel by), Lloyd Osbourne (suggested by a novel by), Larry Gelbart (written for the screen by), Burt Shevelove (written for the screen by)
- Directors : Bryan Forbes min
- Imdb : 7 (2261 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.8 (702 votes)
- Actors : Jeremy Lloyd, James Villiers, Graham Stark, Nicholas Parsons
Movie 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.