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    1. [OEL] Tontine
    2. Gordon Barlow
    3. > There was a splendid film, called ? the Wrong Box' with Peter Sellers > when he was still funny. The tontine had reached a point where there > were only two or three old men alive and their families were working > their socks of to eliminate all but their man, and to pretend he was > alive when he was recently deceased. so they would inherit the money > from the 'last named' > Eve McLaughlin > My goodness, Eve! There can't be many of us left who are old enough to have seen 'The Wrong Box'. Are you sure Peter Sellers was in it? I remember Ralph Richardson, and a young Michael Caine, but not Sellers. It was funny, and clever. Gordon

    03/11/2004 05:40:12