A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until only two brothers are left. One brother is watched by his nephews who will keep him alive at all costs, the other lives in ill health and poverty as the only support of his fairly stupid grandson. Statues and bodies are switched, in the wrong boxes until everyone is sure someone has died. Now if they can only make it seem as if the other brother died first, hundreds of thousands of pounds (in Victorian England when a pound was a pound) will be theirs.

Starring:

Andre Morell, Andrea Allan, Avis Bunnage, Charlie Bird, Cicely Courtneidge, David Lodge, Denis Cowles, Diane Clare, Dick Gregory, Donald Tandy, Dorothy Ford, Dudley Moore, Frank Singuineau, Fred Clark, George Selway, George Spence, Gerald Sim, Graham Stark, Gwendolyn Watts, Hamilton Dyce, Hilton Edwards, Irene Handl, James Villiers, Jeremy Lloyd, Jim Sc

Genre:

Comedy