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The Wrong Box

Year:

1966

Duration:

105 min

Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Crime

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

Bryan Forbes

Awards:

Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1966-07-04

Filming Locations: Englefield Green, Surrey, England, UK

Cast

Actor

Character

Andrea Allan

Jeremy Lloyd

Brian Allen Harvey

James Villiers

Sydney Whitcombe Sykes

Graham Stark

Ian Scott Fife

Nicholas Parsons

Alan Frazer Scrope

Willoughby Goddard

James Whyte Wragg

Valentine Dyall

Oliver Pike Harmsworth

Leonard Rossiter

Vyvyan Alistair Montague

Hamilton Dyce

Derek Lloyd Peter Digby

Hilton Edwards

Lawyer

Timothy Bateson

Clerk

Donald Oliver

Gunner Sergeant

Totti Truman Taylor

Lady at Launching

Jeremy Roughton

Bugler

Frank Singuineau

Native Bearer

Michael Lees

Young Digby

Avis Bunnage

Queen Victoria

John Mills

Masterman Finsbury

Michael Caine

Michael Finsbury

Wilfrid Lawson

Peacock - the Butler

Ralph Richardson

Joseph Finsbury

Peter Cook

Morris Finsbury

Dudley Moore

John Finsbury

Nanette Newman

Julia Finsbury

Gwendolyn Watts

Maidservant

Vanda Godsell

Mrs. Goodge

Peter Graves

Military Officer

Tutte Lemkow

Strangler

Marianne Stone

Spinster

John Junkin

First Engine Driver

Roy Murray

Fred the Stoker

Donald Tandy

Ticket Collector

Lionel Gamlin

Second Engine Driver

Martin Terry

Stoker

Michael Bird

Countryman

George Selway

Railway Vanman

Josef Behrmann

Railway Vanman

Peter Sellers

Doctor Pratt

John Le Mesurier

Doctor Slattery

Norman Rossington

First Rough

Thomas Gallagher

Second Rough

Charlie Bird

Benn's Vanman (as Charles Bird)

Thorley Walters

Lawyer Patience

Cicely Courtneidge

Major Martha

Diane Clare

Mercy

Gerald Sim

First Undertaker

Tony Hancock

Detective

Tony Thawnton

Second Undertaker

Temperance Seven

Themselves (as The Temperance Seven)

Reg Lye

Third Undertaker

George Spence

Workman in Road

Irene Handl

Mrs. Hackett

Norman Bird

Clergyman

Penny Brahms

Twittering Female on Moors (uncredited)

Fred Clark

Constable (uncredited)

Denis Cowles

Sotheby's Partner (uncredited)

Dan Cressey

Judas (uncredited)

Alistair Dick

Undertaker's Assistant (uncredited)

John Fitch

Undertaker's Assistant (uncredited)

Sarah Forbes

Little Girl Sitting by Bandstand at End of Film (uncredited)

Dorothy Ford

Salvation Army Girl (uncredited)

Unity Greenwood

Salvation Army Girl (uncredited)

Sarah Harrison

Governess (uncredited)

Norman Hibbert

Undertaker's Assistant (uncredited)

George Hillsden

Constable (uncredited)

Lindsay Hooper

Matthew (uncredited)

Maria Kazan

Twittering Female on Moors (uncredited)

David Lodge

Corpse Remover (uncredited)

Alf Mangan

Gravedigger (uncredited)

Juliet Mills

Mannish Woman on Train (uncredited)

André Morell

Club Butler (uncredited)

John Morris

Sotheby's Assistant (uncredited)

Norman David Morris

Gravedigger (uncredited)

Louise Nolan

Mourner (uncredited)

John Parker

Undertaker's Assistant (uncredited)

Peggy Ray

Child with Governess (uncredited)

Arthur Sandiford

Mourner (uncredited)

Jim Scott

Undertaker's Assistant (uncredited)

Nicole Shelby

Mrs. Tyler Croft (uncredited)

Patsy Snell

Girl on Train (uncredited)

Phillip Stewart

Elderly Man on Train (uncredited)

John Tatum

Verger (uncredited)

Rita Tobin-Weske

Elderly Woman on Train (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Final cinema movie of television comedian Tony Hancock.

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The film was made and released about seventy-seven years after its source novel of the same name by Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson had been first published in 1889.

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Irene Handl: As Mrs. Hackett.

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Goofs

The Victorian-age London houses have TV antennae on them.

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Just before the train crash you can see the smoke and steam going back into the engines, signifying the trains were in reverse and the film played backwards.

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Opening the door to leave his brother's house after nearly being hit with a thrown vase, the Ralph Richardson character has two flowers in his left hand; there's then a cut to an exterior shot showing him emerging from the house flowerless.

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Quotes

Morris Finsbury: I was wondering - do you by any chance happen to have any - uh - death certificates?

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Detective: All right, come on, come on, what's going on? Come on, what is it? Come on!

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Michael Finsbury: [examining a Classical Greek statue] Is it a fraud, Peacock?

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