Top billed cast

1. 

   John Mills

   Masterman Finsbury

2. 

   Ralph Richardson

   Joseph Finsbury

3. 

   Michael Caine

   Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury

4. 

   Peter Cook

   Morris Finsbury

5. 

   Dudley Moore

   John Finsbury

6. 

   Nanette Newman

   Julia Finsbury

7. 

   Tony Hancock

   Detective

8. 

   Peter Sellers

   Doctor Pratt

9. 

   Cicely Courtneidge

   Major Martha

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-09-14

Bryan Forbes is to be commended for assembling a glittering cast in this rather plodding adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. It centres around the fate of a £20,000 fortune - the result of a tontine between 20 families who each invested £1,000 in a lottery than would provide the entire fund for whichever of their young children survived! Over the course of time, nature takes it's course until, sixty years later, we are left with two brothers. "Masterman" (John Mills) and "Joseph" (Sir Ralph Richardson). The former is a conspiring old fellow who really cares about the cash - a feeli...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• dark comedy
• victorian england
• queen of england
• 19th century