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John Mills: The Wrong Box

on BBC One London

continues a season of films to celebrate the 80th birthday of the distinguished British actor. Today with Ralph Richardson Michael Caine
Victorian England:
Masterman and Joseph Finsbury , two elderly brothers, live next door to each other. One of them will receive a large inheritance on the other's death. Masterman wants the fortune for his gauche grandson Michael, an ineffectual medical student. Joseph is too distracted to care, but his avaricious nephews Morris and John have other plans....
John Mills heads an anarchic comedy, full of wild chases, and eccentric characters.
Screenplay by LARRY GELBART and BURT SHEVELOVE , based on the novel by r.l. STEVENSON and LLOYD OSBOURNE Produced and directed by BRYAN FORBES
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Contributors

Unknown:
Ralph Richardson
Unknown:
Michael Caine
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Joseph Finsbury
Unknown:
John Mills
Unknown:
Larry Gelbart
Unknown:
Burt Shevelove
Unknown:
Lloyd Osbourne
Masterman:
John Mills
Joseph:
Ralph Richardson
Michael:
Michael Caine
Morris:
Peter Cook
John:
Dudley Moore
Julia:
Nanette Newman
Peacock:
Wilfrid Lawson
Brian:
Jeremy Lloyd
Sidney:
James Villiers
Alan:
Nicholas Parsons
Vyvyan:
Leonard Rossiter
Dr Pratt:
Peter Sellers
Dr Slattery:
John Le Mesurier
Major Martha:
Cicely Courtneidge
Detective:
Tony Hancock
Mrs Hachett:
Irene Handl

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