John Mills

Ralph Richardson

Michael Caine

Peter Cook

Dudley Moore

Nanette Newman

Tony Hancock

Peter Sellers

Cicely Courtneidge

Wilfrid Lawson

Thorley Walters

Gerald Sim

Peter Graves

Irene Handl

Norman Bird

John Le Mesurier

Hilton Edwards

Norman Rossington

Diane Clare

Tutte Lemkow

Jeremy Lloyd

James Villiers

Graham Stark

Dick Gregory

Nicholas Parsons

Willoughby Goddard

Valentine Dyall

Leonard Rossiter

Hamilton Dyce

Timothy Bateson

Donald Oliver

Totti Truman Taylor

Jeremy Roughton

Frank Singuineau

Michael Lees

Avis Bunnage

Gwendolyn Watts

Vanda Godsell

Marianne Stone

John Junkin

Roy Murray

Donald Tandy

Lionel Gamlin

Martin Terry

Michael Bird

George Selway

Josef Behrmann

Thomas Gallagher

Charlie Bird

Tony Thawnton

Reg Lye

George Spence

Penny Brahms

Andrea Allan

David Lodge

Juliet Mills

André Morell

Maria Kazan

Bryan Forbes

Lloyd Osbourne

Larry Gelbart

Burt Shevelove

Robert Louis Stevenson

Julie Harris

John L. Hargreaves

Ted Lockhart

Teddy Mason

George Courtney Ward

Gus Lloyd

Robert Ellis

Peter James

George Ball

Alfred Waye

John Barry

Gerry Turpin

Alan Osbiston

Jack Rix

Ray Thorne

Bill Daniels

Paul Rabiger

Donald Toms

Michael Sarafian

Ronnie Taylor

George Hill

Ray Simm

Laurel Staffell

Ken Barker

Basil Newall

Christopher Dryhurst

Maude Onslow

Roy Ponting

Penny Daniels

Comedy

The Wrong Box

Salamander Film Productions

United Kingdom

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Bryan Forbes is to be commended for assembling a glittering cast in this rather plodding adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It centres around the fate of a £20,000 fortune - the result of a tontine between 20 families who each invested £1,000 in a lottery than would provide the entire fund for whichever of their young children survived! Over the course of time, nature takes it's course until, sixty years later, we are left with two brothers. "Masterman" (John Mills) and "Joseph" (Sir Ralph Richardson). The former is a conspiring old fellow who really cares about the cash - a feeling shared by his plotting grandson "Michael" (Michael Caine). The latter - who doesn't really care about the cash - a rather charming old buffoon with a tale to tell of just about everything, being kept going for as long as possible by his scheming nephews Peter Cook ("Morris"), Dudley Moore ("John") and charming neice Nanette Newman ("Julia"). The scene is now set for a series of lightly amusing escapades with a few cameos from (policeman) Tony Hancock, (doctor) Peter Sellers and a wonderfully paced (quite literally) effort from Wilfred Lawson as the butler "Peacock" leading to a rather farcical conclusion in a graveyard. It is certainly a great looking film, John Barry provides one of his less distinctive scores and the film really moves along quickly. It just wasn't funny. The impending jokes could be seen from space, and aside from Lawson, and Sir Ralph's nigh on perfect portrayal of the doting old "Joseph", the characters provide more for a star-studded gathering for the sake it it, rather for the cohesiveness of the (admittedly quite fun) plot. Not one of RLS's finest stories, this - it tries to ridicule the "virtues" of 19th century Britain, but this production lacks subtlety, wit to achieve that goal. It really overcooks the perceived eccentricities of the characters - especially with Messrs. Cook and Moore. There was a certain style of comedy and comedian prevailing in the UK in the 1960s - fans of which may get much more from this. As it is, though, I struggled with it.

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