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

[David Lennick]

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were half of "Beyond the Fringe" and were a 
hilarious team by themselves in the 60s and 70s. They had a TV series, the only 
surviving episodes of which are on DVD, and I saw them on Broadway in their 
"Good Evening".

The "Wrong Box" soundtrack was on Mainstream..may yet be one of the few 
soundtrack albums to be worth something, although that market plummeted in the 
late 70s. And no, I've never seen the film.

dl

On 12/18/2010 1:56 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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).
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>>
>>
>
> 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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