Just My Luck

Just My Luck (1957)

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?

Data di uscita
1957-11-14
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (12)
Durata
1 h 29 min
Generi
Commedia
Regista
John Paddy Carstairs

Cast

Curiosità

  • Girato a: Pinewood Studios

Just My Luck is a 1957 British sports comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Jill Dixon and Leslie Phillips. It was written by Peter Cusick, Alfred Shaughnessy and Peter Blackmore.

Production

The film was based on an idea by American producer Peter Cusick which was based in turn on a racing story he had heard in Kentucky. A gambler had an 'accumulator' bet on a specific jockey for one day of a race meeting. The jockey won his first five out of six rides; if he lost the sixth the gambler would lose his money. But if the sixth mount was scratched the gambler would clean up on the five races.

Producer Hugh Stewart, who had made three Norman Wisdom films for the Rank Organisation, read the script and felt it would make an idea vehicle for Wisdom. He persuaded Rank to buy the script which was retitled Just My Luck, rewritten under the supervision of Stewart and Wisom's regular director John Paddy Carstairs. Rutherford played the horse owner but the bookies were now played by Leslie Phillips and Peter Copley.

The film was shot at Pinewood Studios near London in June 1957 with sets designed by the art director Ernest Archer. Although the previous Wisdom film was shot in colour it was decided to do this one in black and white as it was felt Wisdom's fans would see it regardless. Marilyn Monroe, then in England filming The Prince and the Showgirl, visited the set.

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