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

[Cary Ginell]

I meant to say something about this. Our TCM lineup on Friday had "The Wrong Schedule" and did not include this movie. And I got up at 4:30 because I had forgotten to set my DVR. 

In the immortal words of W. C. Fields: "Drat."

Cary Ginell

> Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:49:11 -0500
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Wrong Box (was The weirdest thing...)
> 
> Did anyone catch this? We watched it last night..and among all the other Brits 
> new and old, including Cicely Courtneidge as a Salvation Army officer, there 
> was The Temperance Seven (all eight of them).
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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