The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then receives the whole of the proceeds). The story involves the last two such survivors and their relations, a train crash, missing uncles, surplus dead bodies and innocent bystanders. A farce really. (Summary by AJM)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
In Which Morris Suspects
27:48 - Chapter 2
In Which Morris takes Action
30:35 - Chapter 3
The Lecturer at Large
23:08 - Chapter 4
The Magistrate in the Luggage Van
09:06 - Chapter 5
Mr Gideon Forsyth and the Gigantic Box
19:12 - Chapter 6
The Tribulations of Morris: Part the First
30:36 - Chapter 7
In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice
25:14 - Chapter 8
In Which Michael Finsbury Enjoys a Holiday
38:21 - Chapter 9
Glorious Conclusion of Michael Finsbury's Holiday
31:14 - Chapter 10
Gideon Forsyth and the Broadwood Grand
19:25 - Chapter 11
The Maestro Jimson
33:22 - Chapter 12
Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood Grand
19:53 - Chapter 13
The Tribulations of Morris: Part the Second
20:49 - Chapter 14
William Bent Pitman Hears of Something to his Advantage
28:45 - Chapter 15
The Return of the Great Vance
13:47 - Chapter 16
Final Adjustment of the Leather Business
08:47