The Wrong Box (1966) Reviews & Ratings

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The Wrong Box reviews

The Wrong Box holds a 6.4/10 average from 69 TMDB ratings.

Bryan Forbes is to be commended for assembling a glittering cast in this rather plodding adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It centres around the fate of a £20,000 fortune - the result of a tontine between 20 families who each invested £1,000 in a lottery than would provide the entire fund for whichever of their young children survived! Over the course of time, nature takes it's course until, sixty years…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

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