The Wrong Box

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. 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, Nanette Newman 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).

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Production: Columbia Pictures Corporation
  Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
APPROVED
Year:
1966
105
1,219 Views

[last lines]

Detective:
All right, come on, come on, what's going on? Come on, what is it? Come on!

Clergyman:
Please, sir, I beg of you, there's a dead man here.

Detective:
All right, no one move! [long pause while he realizes it's a church burial] Finsbury?

Michael Finsbury, Julia Finsbury, Masterman Finsbury, Joseph Finsbury, Morris, John Finsbury:
Yes?

Detective:
MORRIS Finsbury!

John Finsbury:
[turning Morris around and pointing at him] Yes.

Detective:
Morris Finsbury, I arrest you for stealing ?100,000.

Lawyer Patience:
But the money has been returned, sir.

Detective:
Who are you, sir? Some sort of accomplice?

Lawyer Patience:
Certainly not: I am his solicitor.

Detective:
Oh, you've brought your solicitor with you, have you? Yes, I've met your type before.

Lawyer Patience:
No, no, no. I mean, I, I, I'm the administrator of the tontine.

Detective:
Tontine?

Joseph Finsbury:
Named after Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapolitan banker.

Detective:
And who are you, sir?

Joseph Finsbury:
I...

Masterman Finsbury:
[interrupting] He's nobody. He's my young brother.

Detective:
And who are you, sir?

Masterman Finsbury:
None of your business, sir!

Detective:
I shall have you arrested for indecent exposure!

Julia Finsbury:
Oh!

Michael Finsbury:
My grandfather was recently buried, sir.

Detective:
And who are you, sir?

Julia Finsbury:
He is Michael Finsbury.

Detective:
And who are YOU, madam?

Michael Finsbury:
She is Julia Finsbury, shortly to become... Julia Finsbury!

Detective:
Young man, did you know there was a body in the piano?

Peacock:
I did it.

Detective:
Who is he?

Michael Finsbury:
He is the butler, sir.

Detective:
The butler did it?

Michael Finsbury:
No, sir. I put the body there.

Detective:
Is this true?

Michael Finsbury:
Yes sir.

Detective:
In that case, you are entitled to a reward of ?1,000. You are responsible for bringing the Bournemouth Strangler to his just end.

Michael Finsbury:
A, a thousand pounds? Oh, but I-I-I don't, I don't deserve it. The body just arrived in a barrel.

John Finsbury:
I sent it.

Detective:
And who are you, sir?

Morris Finsbury:
He is of diminished responsibility, officer. It was all my doing. If there's any justice in this naughty world, the reward is mine.

Detective:
And WHO are YOU?

[falls into open grave]

Morris Finsbury:
You remember me - Morris Finsbury. I was falsely accused of stealing a hundred thousand pounds, whereas in fact it was me, and me alone, who was responsible for bringing the Bournemouth Strangler to his just desserts.


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