Just My Luck

Just My Luck - 1957 | 82mins | Comedy | B&W

The Production Team

Director: John Paddy Carstairs.
Producer: Hugh Stewart.
Script: Peter Blackmore. (from the novel by Alfred Shaughnessy)
Cinematography: Jack E. Cox.
Editing: Roger Cherrill.
Art Direction: Ernest Archer.
Makeup Department: Aldo Manganaro.
Sound Department: Bill Daniels, Gordon K. McCallum, Dudley Messenger and Les Wiggins.
Original Music: Philip Green.

The Cast

Norman Wisdom - Norman Hackett
Margaret Rutherford - Mrs. Dooley
Jill Dixon - Anne
Leslie Phillips - Hon. Richard Lumb
Delphi Lawrence - Mrs. Daviot
Joan Sims - Phoebe
Edward Chapman - Mr. Stoneway

Plot Synopsis

Pleasant if somewhat laboured madcap comedy starring Norman Wisdom, set around the world of horse-racing.

Norman (Norman Wisdom) is a hapless jeweller's assistant secretly in love with Anne (Jill Dixon), the window-dresser who works across the road; Norman wished to buy an expensive ruby pendant to express his love for her. Fortune beckons, however, when Norman has to go to shady bookmaker's Weaver and Lumb (Peter Copley and Leslie Phillips) and is given some advice on how to place a lucrative accumulator bet. He places £1 on a jockey to win all six of his races at Goodwood. The odds are one thousand to one.

The jockey wins the first five races and the stakes gradually get higher and higher until Norman's excitement gets the better of him. Unfortunately there is a no-hoper in the last race, Norman tries to buy the horse but fails, and it comes in last before he realizes the jockey had switched mounts and has won. However, collecting his winnings from the crooked bookmakers may not be as straightforward as he thinks.