Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The Wrong Box (1966)

Second viewing; first was on April 23, 1989.

Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889.

A lottery is established which takes as participants several children and has as a rule that the last survivor among them shall be the winner. It so happens that many years later two brothers are the only two living remnants, and this causes some anxiety in one of them, as well as on two inheritors of the other.

A funny film from start to finish; the humor may not be of the most intellectual kind, but it is certainly effective, and I was rarely without at least a smile on my face while watching it (and this, if I remember right, on both occasions).

Rating: 65 (down from 70)

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