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] The cast also included Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon and Leslie Phillips. It was shot at Pinewood Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Ernest Archer.
Just My Luck | |
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Directed by | John Paddy Carstairs |
Written by | Peter Cusick Alfred Shaughnessy Peter Blackmore |
Produced by | Earl St. John Hugh Stewart |
Starring | Norman Wisdom Margaret Rutherford Jill Dixon Leslie Phillips |
Cinematography | Jack E. Cox |
Edited by | Roger Cherrill |
Music by | Philip Green |
Production company | Rank Organisation |
Distributed by | Rank Film Distributors |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Norman Hackett (Norman Wisdom) is employed in a jeweller's workshop and is innocently preoccupied with dreaming of meeting the window dresser in the shop across the street from his workplace. He wishes to purchase a diamond pendant for her and, after persuasion, gambles a pound on a six-horse accumulator at the Goodwood races. The bookmaker grows concerned when it appears Hackett, after winning on the first five races, could win over £16,000.
According to the BFI Screenonline website, "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".[1]
Kinematograph Weekly listed it as being "in the money" at the British box office in 1958.[2]
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