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The Wrong Box
Directed by
Bryan Forbes
Approved
1966
1h 45m
Crime
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Comedy
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and more
6.7
88%
70%
6.5
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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.
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Cast of The Wrong Box
John Mills
Masterman Finsbury
Ralph Richardson
Joseph Finsbury
Michael Caine
Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury
Peter Cook
Morris Finsbury
Dudley Moore
John Finsbury
Nanette Newman
Julia Finsbury
Tony Hancock
Detective
Peter Sellers
Doctor Pratt
Cicely Courtneidge
Major Martha
Wilfrid Lawson
Peacock
Thorley Walters
Patience
Gerald Sim
1st Undertaker
Peter Graves
Military Officer
Irene Handl
Mrs. Hackett
Norman Bird
Clergyman
John Le Mesurier
Doctor Slattery
Hilton Edwards
Lawyer
Norman Rossington
1st Rough
Diane Clare
Mercy
Tutte Lemkow
Strangler
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The Wrong Box Ratings & Reviews
Mister Arn
May 24, 2025
The humor didn't work with me, making it a slow, tedious build-up to its excellent punch line.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
It is a farce with a lot of class and style, carried off with some brilliant acting. It also has what most films with idiot plots lack, restraint, subtlety and sly wit.
TIME Magazine
Some of the gags crumble on impact, others are stretched out like taffy, but there is enough fun left over to leave most moviegoers happily wallowing in greed, sex, homicide, body snatching and other nefarious diversions.
TV Guide
All of the smaller roles are deliciously cast, with several of the best comic actors England had to offer in that decade, a heyday of British humor.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Mildly amusing silly black comedy set in Victorian England.
Variety
Variety Staff
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.
Denton Record-Chronicle
Boo Allen
Funny farce with an all-star cast.
Movie Metropolis
James Plath
Hilarious black comedy.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
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.
Kansas City Kansan
Steve Crum
Black comedy featuring great British comedy actors
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
He only has two scenes, but those two scenes, for my money, are the finest things [Peter] Sellers ever did.
Flipside Movie Emporium
Rob Vaux
An inspired English farce; Ralph Richardson is irresistible.
Des Moines Register
Jeffrey Bruner
Full of fun and wit ... It's a great treat for fans of The Life of Brian and Fawlty Towers who are curious about the history of British comedy.
Boxoffice Magazine
Bryan Forbes proves as excellent at directing off-beat period comedy as he is at drama, and the slightly stylized acting technique occasionally used by his all-British cast in The Wrong Box adds plenty of flavor to the fun.
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