The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box

105 mins | Crime, Comedy, Adventure | June 19, 1966

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

The Wrong Box

105 mins | Crime, Comedy, Adventure | June 19, 1966

The Wrong Box
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Salamander Film Productions
Original title The Wrong Box
Directors Christopher Dryhurst, Penny Daniels, Bryan Forbes
Writers Lloyd Osbourne, Burt Shevelove, Robert Louis Stevenson, Larry Gelbart

Cast

John Mills

as Masterman Finsbury

Ralph Richardson

as Joseph Finsbury

Michael Caine

as Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury

Peter Cook

as Morris Finsbury

Dudley Moore

as John Finsbury

Nanette Newman

as Julia Finsbury

Tony Hancock

as Detective

Peter Sellers

as Doctor Pratt

Cicely Courtneidge

as Major Martha

Wilfrid Lawson

as Peacock

Thorley Walters

as Patience

Gerald Sim

as 1st Undertaker

Peter Graves

as Military Officer

Irene Handl

as Mrs. Hackett

Norman Bird

as Clergyman

John Le Mesurier

as Doctor Slattery

Hilton Edwards

as Lawyer

Norman Rossington

as 1st Rough

Diane Clare

as Mercy

Tutte Lemkow

as Strangler

Jeremy Lloyd

as Brian Allen Harvey

James Villiers

as Sydney Whitcombe Sykes

Graham Stark

as Ian Scott Fife

Dick Gregory

as Leicester Young Fielding

Nicholas Parsons

as Alan Frazer Scrope

Willoughby Goddard

as James Whyte Wragg

Valentine Dyall

as Oliver Pike Harmsworth

Leonard Rossiter

as Vyvyan Alistair Montague

Hamilton Dyce

as Derek Lloyd Peter Digby

Timothy Bateson

as Clerk

Donald Oliver

as Gunner Sergeant

Totti Truman Taylor

as Lady at Launching

Jeremy Roughton

as Bugler

Frank Singuineau

as Native Bearer

Michael Lees

as Young Digby

Avis Bunnage

as Queen Victoria

Gwendolyn Watts

as Maidservant

Vanda Godsell

as Mrs. Goodge

Marianne Stone

as Spinster

John Junkin

as 1st Engine Driver

Roy Murray

as Stoker

Donald Tandy

as Ticket Collector

Lionel Gamlin

as 2nd Engine Driver

Martin Terry

as Stoker

Michael Bird

as Countryman

George Selway

as Railway Vanman

Josef Behrmann

as Railway Vanman

Thomas Gallagher

as 2nd Rough

Charlie Bird

as Bonn's Vanmen

Tony Thawnton

as 2nd Undertaker

Reg Lye

as 3rd Undertaker

George Spence

as Workman in Road

Penny Brahms

as Twittering Female on the Moors

Andrea Allan

as Girl on Train

David Lodge

as Corpse Remover

Juliet Mills

as Mannish Woman on Train

André Morell

as Club Butler

Maria Kazan

as Twittering Female on the Moors