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The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box
The Wrong Box.jpg
Theatrical release poster
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
27 May 1966
Running time
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).


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