The Wrong Box (1966)

Directors

Bryan Forbes

Cast

Jeremy Lloyd, James Villiers, Michael Caine, John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

The story

In the early 19th century, a lawyer tells a group of boys that a tontine has been organised; £1,000 has been invested for each child (£20,000 in total), but only the last survivor will receive all the capital and interest. Sixty-three years later, the last survivors are elderly brothers Masterman and Joseph Finsbury, who live next to each other in Victorian London. Although Masterman has not talked to his despised brother in years, he sends his medical student grandson Michael Finsbury to summon Joseph to see him.

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