[78-L] The Wrong Box (was The weirdest thing...)

[Michael Biel]

On 12/18/2010 1:41 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> Yes. "The Wrong Box" was based on a Robert Louis Stevenson novel that I read in Junior High School. It's a black comedy and very funny. I thought you would know about this film, Mike! It has a couple of Goons in it (Peter Sellers and Peter Cook)

Of course Cook wasn't really a Goon, he was with Moore in Beyond the 
Fringe, but did appear on some of the post-Goon LPs.
>   plus the likes of John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, and Dudley Moore - all playing it straight. I haven't seen the movie in years (it came out in 1966 when I was 10).
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I was 20 in 1966 when I saw it in the theaters.  I remember Sheila being 
completely baffled by it -- subtitles would have helped!  I also haven't 
seen it since.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

>>> or if they also had the wrong box #.
>> Wasn't there an English movie by that title?  The box being a coffin.
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