The Wrong Box
A darkly comedic Victorian romp built on scheming, mistaken identities, and the absurd lengths people will go for inheritance.
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Essence
Ensemble
John Mills
Masterman Finsbury
Ralph Richardson
Joseph Finsbury
Michael Caine
Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury
Peter Cook
Morris Finsbury
Dudley Moore
John Finsbury
Nanette Newman
Julia Finsbury
Tony Hancock
Detective
Peter Sellers
Doctor Pratt
Cicely Courtneidge
Major Martha
Wilfrid Lawson
Peacock
Thorley Walters
Patience
Gerald Sim
1st Undertaker
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