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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.!
Wrong Box, The | ||
Year: | 1966 | |
Director: | Bryan Forbes | |
Stars: | John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Lawson, Thorley Walters, Gerald Sim, Irene Handl, Cicely Courtneidge, Norman Rossington, John Le Mesurier, Norman Bird | |
Genre: | Comedy | |
Rating: | 5 (from 4 votes) | |
Review: | Many years ago a tontine was set up for a class of well off children at their private school, which dictated they each would have a thousand pounds paid into a fund, and after decades of financial interest the one pupil left alive would be awarded all the money that had been collected.
So time went by, and the ex-schoolboys went the way of all flesh eventually until there were only two left: the Finsbury brothers, Masterman (John Mills) and Joseph (Ralph Richardson), who in spite of living right next door to one another, had not spoken in forty years... |