The Wrong Box
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so. In 1818, England, a tontine i(lottery) is established for 20 boys by th…
The Wrong Box
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so. In 1818, England, a tontine i(lottery) is established for 20 boys by their parents. Each parent put £1000 into the pot, the winner being the last surviving boy, will receive all the money (the total, £100,000.00 - (equal to over £12m today). The group dwindles until only 2 elderly brothers are left by1882. One brother's watched by his nephews who'll keep him alive at all costs. The other lives in ill health and poverty - the only support is his perpetually confused grandson. A deliciously hysterical black comedy. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> 20 young boys join a tontine: their parents each deposited £1,000 into a trust and the last of them alive gets all the money. Several decades have passed and only two are left alive: Masterman and Joseph Finsbury - brothers. Masterman hatches a plan to lure Joseph to his home...and kill him. In this endeavour he is unwittingly aided by his slow, ineffectual grandson Michael. Joseph is watched over by his scheming nephews Morris and John Finsbury whose sole purpose is to ensure Joseph wins the tontine so they can get a share of the money. —grantss
The Wrong Box
Comedy,Crime
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In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so. In 1818, England, a tontine i(lottery) is established for 20 boys by their parents. Each parent put £1000 into the pot, the winner being the last surviving boy, will receive all the money (the total, £100,000.00 - (equal to over £12m today).
The group dwindles until only 2 elderly brothers are left by1882. One brother's watched by his nephews who'll keep him alive at all costs. The other lives in ill health and poverty - the only support is his perpetually confused grandson.
A deliciously hysterical black comedy. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> 20 young boys join a tontine: their parents each deposited £1,000 into a trust and the last of them alive gets all the money. Several decades have passed and only two are left alive: Masterman and Joseph Finsbury - brothers.
Masterman hatches a plan to lure Joseph to his home...and kill him. In this endeavour he is unwittingly aided by his slow, ineffectual grandson Michael. Joseph is watched over by his scheming nephews Morris and John Finsbury whose sole purpose is to ensure Joseph wins the tontine so they can get a share of the money.
—grantss.