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}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

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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}}

| runtime = 73 minutes{{cite web|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/just-joe-1970|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408171407/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/just-joe-1970|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 April 2017|title=JUST JOE - British Board of Film Classification|publisher=}}

| 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

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}}

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