The Wrong Box

1966 film by Bryan Forbes

Movie Film Q3423452

Facts

21 properties

Instance of: film
Director: Bryan Forbes^[2]
Genre: black comedy film, drama film^[5]^[6]
Publication date: 1966^[28]
Screenwriter: Larry Gelbart^[3]
Producer: Bryan Forbes^[21]
Duration: +105^[34]
CNC film rating (France): no age restriction^[36]
Cast member: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, Graham Stark, Tony Hancock, Wilfrid Lawson, Timothy Bateson, James Villiers, John Le Mesurier, Thorley Walters, André Morell, Peter Graves, Leonard Rossiter, Marianne Stone, Tutte Lemkow, Jeremy Lloyd^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]
Color: color^[26]
Composer: John Barry^[4]
Costume designer: Julie Harris^[35]
Country of origin: United Kingdom^[27]
Director of photography: Gerry Turpin^[22]
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures^[29]
Film editor: Alan Osbiston^[32]
Filming location: Pinewood Studios^[31]
Narrative location: England^[30]
Original language of film or TV show: English^[23]
Review score: 6.8/10, 88%^[24]^[25]
Title: The Wrong Box^[33]

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🔖 Identifiers · 44

AFI Catalog of Feature Films ID: 22931
AllMovie title ID: v55626
AlloCiné film ID: 33983
BFI National Archive work ID: 150056220
Cinema.de ID: 1311446
Cinémathèque québécoise work ID: 5236
Deutsche Synchronkartei film ID: 4528
Douban film ID: 2188262
Dvdcompare.net film ID: 15014, 48885
EIDR content ID: 10.5240/AE1A-6A93-2EDE-BF82-67C0-T
ElFilm film ID: 61083
Elonet movie ID: 134716

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Exploitation mark number: 32521
Fernsehserien.de ID: filme/letzte-gruesse-von-onkel-joe
FilmAffinity film ID: 268717
FilmVandaag ID: film/16876
Filmfront film ID (archived): 34733
Filmová databáze film ID: 94122
Filmweb.pl film ID: 11040
Freebase ID: /m/06f_gh
IMDb ID: tt0061204
ISAN: 0000-0000-7698-0000-L-0000-0000-B
Kinobox film ID: 241613
Kinopoisk film ID: 18664
LdiF ID: 13538
Letterboxd film ID: the-wrong-box
MYmovies audiovisual work ID: 4771
Movie Review Query Engine ID: the-wrong-box-m100006282
MovieMeter film ID: 8906
MusicBrainz work ID: bf3fae07-3683-43e2-8d8c-d428424c015d
OFDb film ID: 37460
OMDb film ID: 33021
Plex media key: 5d7768a247dd6e001f6bca0d
Rotten Tomatoes ID: m/wrong_box
Schnittberichte.com title ID: 53613
Swedish Film Database ID: 11255
TCM Movie Database film ID (archived): 96315
TMDB movie ID: 62143
TV Guide show ID (former scheme): 123201
TV.com ID (archived): movies/the-wrong-box
TheTVDB movie ID: 20465
Trakt.tv ID: movies/the-wrong-box-1966
Trakt.tv film ID: 44642
ČSFD film ID: 20525

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🔗 Connections

Cast member 19

Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Peter Cook, John Le Mesurier, André Morell +11 more

Genre 2

drama film, black comedy film

← Mb:composer 2

John Barry, John Barry

Composer 1

John Barry

Costume designer 1

Julie Harris

Country of origin 1

United Kingdom

Director 1

Bryan Forbes

Director of photography 1

Gerry Turpin

Distributed by 1

Columbia Pictures

Filming location 1

Pinewood Studios

Instance of 1

film

Narrative location 1

England

Original language of film or TV show 1

English

Producer 1

Bryan Forbes

Screenwriter 1

Larry Gelbart

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Summary

The Wrong Box is a film^[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ The Wrong Box — director (P57): Bryan Forbes. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ The Wrong Box — screenwriter (P58): Larry Gelbart. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ The Wrong Box — composer (P86): John Barry. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ The Wrong Box — genre (P136): black comedy film. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ The Wrong Box — genre (P136): drama film. Retrieved 2019-05-27. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): John Mills. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Ralph Richardson. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Michael Caine. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Nanette Newman. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Peter Cook. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Dudley Moore. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Peter Sellers. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Graham Stark. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Tony Hancock. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Wilfrid Lawson. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Timothy Bateson. Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): James Villiers. Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): John Le Mesurier. Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ The Wrong Box — cast member (P161): Thorley Walters. Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ The Wrong Box — producer (P162): Bryan Forbes. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ The Wrong Box — director of photography (P344): Gerry Turpin. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ The Wrong Box — original language of film or TV show (P364): English. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ The Wrong Box — review score (P444): 6.8/10. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2021-10-08. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ The Wrong Box — review score (P444): 88%. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ The Wrong Box — color (P462): color. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ The Wrong Box — country of origin (P495): United Kingdom. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ The Wrong Box — publication date (P577): 1966. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ The Wrong Box — distributed by (P750): Columbia Pictures. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ The Wrong Box — narrative location (P840): England. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ The Wrong Box — filming location (P915): Pinewood Studios. wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ The Wrong Box — film editor (P1040): Alan Osbiston. wikidata.org.
[33] ↑ The Wrong Box — title (P1476): The Wrong Box. wikidata.org.
[34] ↑ The Wrong Box — duration (P2047): 105 minutes. wikidata.org.
[35] ↑ The Wrong Box — costume designer (P2515): Julie Harris. wikidata.org.
[36] ↑ The Wrong Box — CNC film rating (France) (P2758): no age restriction. cnc.fr. Retrieved 2024-05-22. cnc.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ The Wrong Box is an instance of film (Q11424) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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11w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Color → color

Filming location → Pinewood Studios

Duration → 105 minute

Instance of → film

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"Created claim: Filmová databáze film ID: 94122, batch #269267"

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