One Good Turn

One Good Turn (1955)

A Riotous Round of Fun!

Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "Never seen the Sea". When they get back they discover the plan to close the orphanage and have to decide what to do

Date of release
1955-01-04
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
John Paddy Carstairs

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Pinewood Studios

One Good Turn is a 1955 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair and Thora Hird. It was written by Maurice Cowan, Carstairs, Ted Willis, Sid Colin and Talbot Rothwell.

Production

Producer Maurice Cowan made Wisdom's first film and wrote the story for his third. He so disliked working with Wisdom on this film that he never produced another film for the comedian.

According to Hugh Stewart, who became Wisdom's main producer, the film "was not particularly good. Paddy - who is very expert but only gets annoyed with people when they really don't know what they're talking about, wouldn't tolerate another film with Maurice."

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