Just My Luck (1933 film)
{{Short description|1933 film}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Just My Luck
| image =
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| director = Jack Raymond
| producer = Herbert Wilcox
| screenplay = Ben Travers
| based_on = {{based on|Fifty-Fifty|H.F. Maltby}}
| music = Lew Stone
| cinematography =
| editing = Alfred Roome
| narrator =
| starring = Ralph Lynn
Winifred Shotter
Robertson Hare
Davy Burnaby
| distributor = Woolf & Freedman Film Service
| released = {{film date|df=yes|1933||}}
| runtime = 77 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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Just My Luck is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Davy Burnaby and Robertson Hare. The screenplay was written by Ben Travers based on a 1932 Aldwych farce by H.F. Maltby, Fifty-Fifty, adapted from the French play Azaïs by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024200|title=Just My Luck|date=1 January 2000|via=IMDb}}
Plot summary
Cast
- Ralph Lynn as David Blake
- Winifred Shotter as Peggy Croft
- Davy Burnaby as Sir Charles Croft
- Robertson Hare as Trigg
- Vera Pearce as Lady Croft
- Frederick Burtwell as Stromboli
- Phyllis Clare as Babs
Critical reception
In 1933, the Melbourne Argus wrote, "one has become accustomed to seeing Ralph Lvnn as Ralph Lynn in every part which he plays. His appearances in the opening sequences of Just My Luck (at the Majestic) as a music teacher who expects everyone to kick him down the back stairs raises hopes that at last one is to see him subordinate himself to a character. The hopes are refreshing but fragile, like a glass of iced lager in the tropics - not that it matters much. Ralph Lynn as Ralph Lynn is as diverting a spectacle as the British screen can offer. The attitude to life of Mr. Blake, the music master, Is expounded in a single phrase. "I wonder why that didn't hit me," he ponders when a loose slate slides from a rooftop and shatters at his feet. Poor Mr. Blake has had 35 years of bad luck...Mr. Lynn contrives to leaven his foolery with touches of genuine pathos, but when his luck changes to prove the comforting theory that a man has as much good as bad fortune in his life, he fairly romps in his Rookery Nook style, through broader and yet broader farce. It is all very good fun, though. Mr. Lynn is supported by an able cast, which includes Winifred Shotter and Robertson Hare."{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11708367|title=RALPH LYNN AS HIMSELF -}}
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0024200}}
{{Jack Raymond}}
{{Herbert Wilcox}}
Category:Films based on adaptations
Category:Films based on works by Louis Verneuil
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:British remakes of French films
Category:British and Dominions Studios films
Category:Films shot at Imperial Studios, Elstree
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:English-language comedy films
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