funlover

Fabulously darkly comedic film with Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke. It had a big star cast too. Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman and a wonderful final performance by Wilfred Lawson among them. I think the Director was Bryan Forbes. Seem to remember the main plot was around the theme of Dud N Pete trying to scam thier way to a fortune from a Tontine by bumping off those in the queue in front of them. A good few years since I have seen it but loved every second of it.

daveoc

This was on afternoon tv and I watched my recording of it yesterday.

Having never seen it before I was slightly disappointed---not that it was bad, just that with the talent involved I was expecting better.

However, Wilfred Lawson was quite superb in it, a wonderful performance I thought.

TimR

I saw this as a boy, and it served as an introduction to a type of British comedy that I had not seen before in American films or on American television in those pre-video and pre-cable years. Monty Python had just been introduced on New York television at that time and was developing a cult following among my friends, and this seemed to fit alongside: a more subtle weirdness that parodied a society so civlized and sophisticated that it produced its own self-effacing humor.

I still remember laughing at those scenes with the bizarre references to eggs. The film itself is a little slow and stuffy, but the best scenes are minor classics.

DB7

I think Ralph Richardson and Pete n Dud are very good, but Michael Caine and nepotistic Nanette Newman are cloying together and rub again much of the black humour.

Like many of the all-star comedies of the time it needed a firmer hand on the rudder.

LocalHero

I hadn't seen it for years and caught it on Channel 5 over the recent late May Bank Holiday.

Some of it was filmed around near where I live so it was great to have a look at it from that point of view too.

Bunnyboy

Lots of scenes filmed in Royal Crescent, Bath. The train crash scene's a real laugh and the music's lovely too! The film has a real sixties 'Sgt Pepper' feel to it despite being set in Victorian England. Check out the opening titles too for some great graphics.

Btlfannz

Hi Everyone, I have just discovered your site and joined immediately! This is my kinda obsession!
I have a true story about the Wrong Box. When I was 21 I left New Zeland for my OE (Overseas Experience - a sort of Rite Of Passage/Comming Of Age thingy.
Anyway, I was wandering the streets of Soho (as you do) when I chanced upon a movie theatre showing a film with two of my favourite (at the time) comedians Pete & Dud. "Right" I said "This is me" and marched straight in. Not being terribly sure of British movie going protocols I was quite amazed to be ushered straight to my seat completely bypassing the box-office and even more gob-smacked when an absolutely stunning woman sat next to me and introduced herself as Nanette Newman.
Suddenly, the penny dropped! in my inimitable antipodean manner I had simply blundered into the premiere of the The Wrong Box. I was so speechless and embarassed that at the end of the movie I just snuck out. Which was rather a pity because out in the foyer I had to walk right passed Pete & Dud!!
Still, I thought it was a great movie then and I still do now!!

torinfan

It's been a very long time since I've seen this but I remember it as being very funny.

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