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.

John Mills
as Masterman Finsbury

Ralph Richardson
as Joseph Finsbury

Michael Caine
as Michael Hubert Gregory Finsbury

Peter Cook
as Morris Finsbury

Dudley Moore
as John Finsbury

Nanette Newman
as Julia Finsbury

Tony Hancock
as Detective

Peter Sellers
as Doctor Pratt

Cicely Courtneidge
as Major Martha

Wilfrid Lawson
as Peacock
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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 fun...