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

[David Lennick]

A reminder concerning this, and a note..preceding it is "Your Past is Showing", 
which is the US title for "The Naked Truth". I first saw that when it played in 
1957 and it's still funny, a macabre comedy with Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, 
Dennis Price and company about a blackmailing publisher being ganged up on by 
his victims (remember "Confidential").

dl

On 12/18/2010 10:27 AM, Marvin Kaplansky wrote:
> 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
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> 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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