The Wrong Box
The Wrong Box 1966 is a British comedy film made by Salamander Film Productions and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was produced and directed by Bryan Forbes from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, based on the 1889 novel The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.
Elderly brothers Masterman Mills and Joseph Finsbury Richardson are the surviving members of a tontine, an investment scheme set up many years before, in which the last member stands to receive a fortune. Masterman is attended by his medical student grandson, Michael Caine, while his greedy cousins Morris Cook and John Moore do their best to keep their annoying uncle Joseph alive. Masterman, who hasnt talked to his despised brother in many years, summons Joseph to his deathbed, intending to kill him so that Michael can get the money.On the train trip to London, Joseph escapes from his minders, entering a compartment and boring the sole occupant with a litany of trivial facts something he does with everyone he encounters. The other man later turns out to be the Bournemouth Strangler. Joseph leaves to smoke a cigarette, leaving his coat behind, which the strangler puts on. The train then crashes into another one coming the other way. In the confusion, Morris and John find the stranglers mutilated body and mistakenly believe it is that of their uncle. ........
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