Wrong Box, The - (Movie Clip) Tontine
Lawyer (Hilton Edwards) and clerk (Timothy Bateson) perform their duties administering the tontine, on which will hinge the events of The Wrong Box, 1966, from a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.
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