Just Joe
{{Short description|1960 British film by Maclean Rogers}}
{{about|the film|the professional wrestler who used the name "Just Joe"|Joe E. Legend|the autobiography|Joe Duffy}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Just Joe
| image = Just_Joe_(1960_film).jpg
| caption = Original British Front of House still
| director = Maclean Rogers
| producer = Roger Proudlock
| writer =
| screenplay = Raymond Drewe
| story =
| based_on = an original story by Donald Bull
| starring = Leslie Randall
Joan Reynolds
Michael Shepley
Anna May Wong
| music =
| cinematography = Geoffrey Faithfull
| editing = Peter Austen-Hunt
| studio = Roger Proudlock Productions (as Parkside Productions)
| distributor = Archway Film Distributors Ltd. {{small|(UK)}}
| released = {{Film date|1960|07||UK|df=y}}
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Just Joe is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers, and starring Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds, Michael Shepley, and Anna May Wong.{{Cite web |title=Just Joe |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150207713 |access-date=27 June 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/253519|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118074331/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/253519|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-18|title=Just Joe (1960)|publisher=}} The screenplay was by Raymond Drewe based on a story by Donald Bull. The unassuming Joe discovers his heroic side when he becomes involved with spies chasing the secret formula of a new detergent.
Plot
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Cast
- Leslie Randall as Joe
- Joan Reynolds as Sybil
- Michael Shepley as Fowler
- Anna May Wong as Peach Blossom
- Jon Pertwee as Prendergast
- Howard Pays as Rodney
- Martin Wyldeck as Bill
- Noel Dyson as Myra
- Bruce Seton as Charlie
- David Sale as Carruthers
- Betty Huntley-Wright as Miss Appleby
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite simple and hard-working performances by Joan Reynolds and Leslie Randall, this film remains another lamentable example of the general ineptness of second-feature domestic comedy. The story is soap-opera, the pace slack and the direction lifeless. Michael Shepley and Jon Pertwee overplay their respective roles of peppery employer and zany research chemist in a desperate attempt to win a few laughs. A fight in a detergent laboratory provides a routine slapstick climax."{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1960 |title=Just Joe |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305823331 |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=27 |issue=312 |pages=114 |id={{ProQuest|1305823331}} |via=ProQuest}}
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0199661}}
{{Maclean Rogers}}
Category:1960s English-language films
Category:Films directed by Maclean Rogers
Category:English-language comedy films
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