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

[Marvin Kaplansky]

To those interested (and with VCRs or PVRs in case you're not a morning
person), The Wrong Box will be on Turner Classic Movies at 5:30AM on Friday,
January 7. Not to be missed.


Marvin Kaplansky



On 18 December 2010 09:16, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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