June 25th
The Wrong Box*
GB 1966. Columbia/Salamander. 110m.

The jealous families of two surviving members of an ancestral lottery battle each other to kill the other off.
An all-star cast over-indulges itself in this colourful looking Victorian black comedy, crowding out the original story, but with some pleasurable moments of eccentric humour.

Written by: Larry Gelbart, Burt Shevelove, based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne.
Producer/Director: Bryan Forbes.
Starring: Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Wilfrid Lawson, Thorley Walters, Cicely Courtneidge, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl, and others.
Photography: Gerry Turpin.
Music: John Barry.
Titles: Robert Ellis.

Preceded by:
Flying Elephants*
(US 1928. 20m. bw. silent; Stone Age men face a race against time to win suitable wives.; w: H.M. Walker, Hal Roach; d: Frank Butler; s: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Edna Marion, Dorothy Coburn, Viola Richard, Leo Willis.)