![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as his nephews who are determined to get the legacy for themselves. They do it up brown in glorious color, and it opened yesterday at Cinema I.Who are these obstreperous actors? Well, in the first place, there's John Mills as the elder of the Finsbury brothers, who is determined to outlive the last of his family rivals for the fabulous Tontin legacy, and thus pass on the fortune to his grandson, played by Michael Caine.Then there's Ralph Richardson playing the younger Finsbury, in a style of airy erudition and pomposity that reminds one of W. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON" and Lloyd Osbourne must be whirling in their graves, convulsed with astonishment and laughter at what a bunch of British actors have done in turning their humorous tale, "The Wrong Box," into an outlandish film.For what these respectable actors, working under the direction of Bryan Forbes, have done is to lift this Victorian fable of a family's fight over a legacy into a farce so fantastic and explosive that it virtually pops right out of the screen. ![]()
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