# Boxes on the wall

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**Category:** Movies\
**Tags:** sci-fi\
**Created:** [December 2, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/boxes-on-the-wall/5050 "2023-12-02T09:46:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Barrowman](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f1d935/32.png) [@Barrowman](https://filmfind.me/u/Barrowman)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/boxes-on-the-wall/5050/1 "2023-12-02T09:46:44Z")

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1960s or 1970s science fiction film. My strongest memory is of a wall covered in boxes or cubes and someone had to choose one of the boxes and hope for a good result. Sorry for being so vague.

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**Author:** ![casspir](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/8491ac/32.png) [@casspir](https://filmfind.me/u/casspir)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/boxes-on-the-wall/5050/2 "2026-02-16T12:43:36Z")

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“The Terrornauts” (1967), so it is a **1960’s sci-fi**

IMDb link:

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062355/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062355/)

**Cubes/boxes in the wall:**

 ![Clipboard_02-16-2026_01](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/4/449e8c4e42ae6ee41da75ba972fd4fc50de9c935.jpeg)

**Man takes one of the cubes out of the wall:**

 ![Clipboard_02-16-2026_02](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cfa2cab5a5ba27105e7c5b73b8bb32ff426a18c5.jpeg)

 ![Clipboard_02-16-2026_03](https://filmfind.me/uploads/default/original/2X/3/32a58926631e325a641d6bdeda2c1073167a0091.jpeg)

The movie is currently available on Netflix and you can also watch the full movie on the internet below (with VPN disabled), **the scene where the man takes out the cube from the wall starts around the 0:40:07 mark:**

> **[The Terrornauts 1967](https://m.ok.ru/video/2881830718157)**
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> Source: DVD 576p 3,000 kbit/s. Residents of a radio telescope laboratory are kidnapped when they answer a mysterious signal from outer space. They are taken to a satellite inhabited only by robots, where they are presented with a series of...

Quotes from the below Wikipedia plot:  
”a robot that takes them through a series of **tests**. After each test, they receive **rewards** , in particular a **“Knowledge Cube” for the knowledge test.** ”  
”discovers the secret of the **Knowledge Cubes**.”  
”The team searches unsuccessfully through the huge **library of cubes** ”

Detailed Wikipedia plot summary here:

> **[The Terrornauts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terrornauts)**
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> The Terrornauts is a 1967 British science fiction film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Simon Oates and Zena Marshall. It was produced by Amicus Productions and based on the 1960 novel The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster, adapted for screen by John Brunner. Space scientists foil an alien invasion of Earth.
> Project Star Talk is based at a UK radio telescope site; its mission is to listen for radio signals from other intelligences. Dr Joe Burke leads the project, assisted by his sm...