The Wrong Box (1966)

[Recounting the railway accident]
Joseph Finsbury: I was in the water closet of the Bournemouth express when it quite unaccountably exploded, thereby extensively damaging the rest of the train. I can't really think that I was to blame, although at the time I was smoking.

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Doctor Pratt: Well, it'll cost you five shillings.
Morris Finsbury: Price is no object.
Doctor Pratt: Right. Ten shillings, then. Payable in advance.

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[Aboard a train engine after a wreck]
First Driver: Fred?
Stoker: Yeah?
First Driver: We haven't heard the last of this.

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When Ralph Richardson was offered the part of Joseph Finsbury, he was finishing work on Doctor Zhivago. Richardson wrote to director Bryan Forbes from the location in Spain and asked if he could wear the same jacket he had worn as Alexander in "Zhivago". Forbes agreed, and Richardson did so.
André Morell (The Club Butler) and 'John Mills' (I) (Masterman Finsbury) both played Professor Bernard Quatermass: Morell in Quatermass and the Pit and Mills in Quatermass.
Charles Victor was booked to appear in this film but died before he could film his scenes.
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