The Wrong Box | |
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Theatrical release poster
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Directed by | Bryan Forbes |
Produced by | Bryan Forbes Jack Rix Larry Gelbart Burt Shevelove |
Written by |
Larry Gelbart Burt Shevelove |
Based on |
The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne |
Starring | |
Music by | John Barry |
Cinematography | Gerry Turpin |
Edited by | Alan Osbiston |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date
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27 May 1966 |
Running time
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107 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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.
The cast includes a number of Britain's leading actors and comic actors of the time, including John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, Irene Handl and Tony Hancock. Included in the cast are other actors who later became more well-known, including John Le Mesurier, John Junkin, Leonard Rossiter, Nicholas Parsons, Jeremy Lloyd, Graham Stark, Thorley Walters, Norman Rossington, David Lodge, Juliet Mills and Norman Bird. Cicely Courtneidge also appears, as Salvation Army Major Martha and The Temperance Seven also appear (as themselves).