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

[Thomas Stern]

There was a video of it available some years ago, and  a DVD (in Europe).
The cameo appearance of Peter Sellers as a balmy doctor with a housefull of cats is fun.
Best wishes, Thomas.

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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Cary Ginell
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 10:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] The Wrong Box (was The weirdest thing...)



Cool! It will be nice to see this after all these years. 

Cary Ginell

> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:27:29 -0500
> From: kaplanskym at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Wrong Box (was The weirdest thing...)
> 
> 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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