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

[David Lennick]

Wonder how that happened? It definitely ran here yesterday, between two other 
lesser-known Peter Sellers films.

dl

On 1/8/2011 11:24 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>