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Synopsis: A tontine is established for twenty boys in 1818 England - a tontine being a kind of insurance wager in which money is invested by each participant, to grow with interest, with the last survivor to get the substantial payout. We watch the group dwindle until only two elderly brothers are left in 1882. One brother is watched by his nephews who will keep him alive at all costs; the other lives in ill health and poverty as the only support of his perpetually confused grandson. Statues and bodies are switched, in the wrong boxes, until everyone is sure that one (or both) of the brothers has died. Now if they can only make it seem as if the other brother died first, over a hundred thousand pounds (in Victorian England, when a pound was a pound) will be theirs.

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Director(s): Bryan Forbes

Actors: Jeremy Lloyd, James Villiers, Graham Stark, Nicholas Parsons

Production: Columbia Pictures Corporation

Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:: 88%

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Year:: 1966
: 105 min
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1,000?
Oh, but I... I don't deserve it.
- The body just arrived in a barrel.
- I sent it.
- And who are you, sir?
- He is of diminished responsibility, Officer.
It was all my doing. If there's any justice
in this naughty world, the reward is mine.
And who are you?
You remember me. Morris Finsbury.
I was falsely accused of stealing 100,000,
whereas, in fact, it was me and me alone
who was responsible for bringing
the Bournemouth Strangler to his just deserts.

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