THE WRONG BOX (1966) C widescreen 106m dir: Bryan Forbes

w/Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Cicely Courteneidge, Wilfred Lawson

This merry farce about the intrigues surrounding a Victorian inheritance runs the gamut from slapstick to black humor.

From The Movie Guide: "This funny period comedy is based on a story coauthored by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne in the [19th] century. Americans [Larry] Gelbart and [Burt] Shevelove expanded on the tale, adding a great deal of comedy and writing the script for this gag-filled farce. ...

"Sellers is on screen only a few minutes but registers quite well, as does Lawson as the butler. The picture is shot like a British version of a Mack Sennett film, replete with subtitles. 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. The picture gets flabby from time to time but comes alive when the old masters, Mills and Richardson, are on screen. The plot works but there are so many sight gags that fall flat, it begins to pall occasionally. The score is by John Barry and The Temperance Seven perform funeral and military airs."