The Wrong Box

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Wrong Box, 1966.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Wrong Box, 1966.

Robert Osborne introduces The Wrong Box, 1966.

First scene for medical student Michael (Michael Caine) who fails to discern that grandfather Masterman (John Mills) has not died, then must humor demented butler Peacock (Wifrid Lawson) in The Wrong Box, 1966.

Lawyer (Hilton Edwards) and clerk (Timothy Bateson) perform their duties administering the tontine, on which will hinge the events of The Wrong Box, 1966, from a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.

Cousin Morris (Peter Cook) collects eggs and John (Dudley Moore) girls as a telegraph arrives and they rush to venerable uncle John (Ralph Richardson) in Bryan Forbes' The Wrong Box, 1966.

Unprincipled Morris (Peter Cook) visits the dissolute, cat-loving Dr. Pratt (Peter Sellers) who "was not always as you see me now," in Bryan Forbes' The Wrong Box, 1966.

Austin Powers would love the opening credits for The Wrong Box, 1966, starring Michael Caine, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, directed by Bryan Forbes, from a script by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove.

Many and varied scenes and players illuminating the spectacular British demise of members of the "tontine," in The Wrong Box, from a script by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove.