The Wrong Box

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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: November 23, 2010
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Sony Pictures Home
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Caine, Dudley Moore, John Mills, Ralph Richardson & Peter Sellers | |
Performer: | Wilfrid Lawson, Peter Cook & Nanette Newman | |
Directed by | Bryan Forbes | |
Composition by | John Barry | |
Director of Photography: | Gerry Turpin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Mills amusingly hams his way through two or three sequences as one of the dying brothers. Richardson, bland, imperturable old bore, is superb. He and Wilfrid Lawson, portraying a decrepit butler, virtually carry away the acting honors.
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Variety
Rating: 3/4 --
Some sections and bits are funnier than others. Some are labored and dull. It is that sort of story, that sort of comedy. But it adds up to a lively lark.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Hilarious black comedy.
Movie Metropolis
Rating: 4/5 --
Black comedy featuring great British comedy actors
Kansas City Kansan
Review Immense, undisciplined, all-star period comedy of a sort that, in the 1960s, was a common feature of American and British cinematic output.
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Film4
Rating: B- --
Mildly amusing silly black comedy set in Victorian England.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
An inspired English farce; Ralph Richardson is irresistible.
Flipside Movie Emporium
Description by OLDIES.com:
Set in Victorian England, The Wrong Box is a British black comedy with a splendid cast including John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and last, but definitely not least, Peter Sellers. A strange rule of inheritance allows only the last remaining survivor of a family of siblings to get the sizable legacy, precipitating a dangerous contest between two elderly brothers (Mills and Richardson). Their families get involved too, sparking a wild chase and absurd comedy as they attempt to be the last man standing. Directed by Bryan Forbes (The L-Shaped Room, Seance on a Wet Afternoon). Newly remastered.
Product Description:
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.
Plot 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.
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Production 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.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 60,087
- UPC: 043396368422
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item