Just My Luck (1957 film)

Just My Luck

Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by	Earl St. John Hugh Stewart
Written by	Peter Cusick Alfred Shaughnessy Peter Blackmore
Starring	Norman Wisdom Margaret Rutherford Jill Dixon
Music by	Philip Green
Cinematography	Jack E. Cox
Edited by	Roger Cherrill
Release dates	7 January 1958 (1958-01-07)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Just My Luck is a 1957 British sports comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Norman Wisdom as a worker in a jewellery shop.^[1]

Plot

Norman Hackett (Norman Wisdom) works in a jewellers workshop and dreams about meeting the shop window dresser over the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant and is persuaded to bet a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races. The bookie starts to worry when Norman, after winning on the first five races, looks like he could win over sixteen thousand pounds.^[2]

Cast

Norman Wisdom as Norman Hackett (and his own father)
Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Dooley
Jill Dixon as Anne
Leslie Phillips as the Hon. Richard Lumb
Delphi Lawrence as Miss Daviot
Joan Sims as Phoebe
Edward Chapman as Mr. Stoneway
Peter Copley as Gilbert Weaver
Vic Wise as Eddie Diamond
Marjorie Rhodes as Mrs. Hackett
Michael Ward as Cranley
Marianne Stone as Tea Bar Attendant
Felix Felton as Man in Cinema
Michael Brennan as Masseur
Cyril Chamberlain as Goodwood Official
Eddie Leslie as Gas Man
Freda Bamford as Mrs. Crossley
Robin Bailey as Steward
Campbell Cotts as Steward
Sam Kydd as Craftsman
Raymond Francis as Ritchie
Ballard Berkeley as Starter at Goodwood (uncredited)
Jerry Desmonde as Racegoer (uncredited)

Critical reception

BFI Screenonline wrote, "Just My Luck is not a piece of comedic genius, nor even the best of Wisdom's films, but it's an amiable, well-constructed piece that recalls a gentler age."^[3]

References

↑ "Just My Luck (1957)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 2011-06-24. ; "Just My Luck (1957)". IMDb. Retrieved 2011-06-24. ; "Just My Luck (1957)". BFI. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
↑ Crook, Steve. "Plot Summary". IMDb. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
↑ http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/589379/index.html

External links

Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs

Paris Plane (1933)
Holiday's End (1937)
Double Exposures (1937)
Night Ride (1937)
Missing, Believed Married (1937)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)
Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
The Saint in London (1939)
Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Spare a Copper (1940)
He Found a Star (1941)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Fools Rush In (1949)
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
Talk of a Million (1951)
Treasure Hunt (1952)
Made in Heaven (1952)
Top of the Form (1953)
Trouble in Store (1953)
Up to His Neck (1954)
One Good Turn (1955)
Man of the Moment (1955)
Jumping for Joy (1956)
Up in the World (1956)
Just My Luck (1957)
The Big Money (1958)
The Square Peg (1959)
Tommy the Toreador (1959)
Sands of the Desert (1960)
A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
The Devil's Agent (1962)

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