Chance of a Lifetime 1950
Chance of a Lifetime
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
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Full Cast & Crew... Dickinson
... Baxter
... Stevens
... Morris
... Adam
... Bolger
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Basil Radford ""Dickinson" runs a small foundry that makes farming implements in post-war Britain that has it's fair share of disgruntled employees. When they threaten a walk out after the stroppy "Bolger" (Geoffrey Keen) gets the push, he offers to let them try their hand at running the business instead. What ensues is a depiction of their valiant attempt to make a go of it, and what makes it interesting - aside from some characterful performances from Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Kenneth More and a smartly paced dialogue - is that Bernard Miles doesn't present us with a rose-coloured "co-op" success story. They have plenty of glitches, contretemps and the ending is clever and fulfilling, without being cloyingly sentimental. It's emblematic of the start of a new era of industrial relations peppered with some good comedic lines and a genuinely plausible, collaborative, perspective. Definitely worth watching.
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Release Date:
Apr 24, 1950
Run Time:
1hr 29`
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Original Language:
English
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Released
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Basil Radford ""Dickinson" runs a small foundry that makes farming implements in post-war Britain that has it's fair share of disgruntled employees. When they threaten a walk out after the stroppy "Bolger" (Geoffrey Keen) gets the push, he offers to let them try their hand at running the business instead. What ensues is a depiction of their valiant attempt to make a go of it, and what makes it interesting - aside from some characterful performances from Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Kenneth More and a smartly paced dialogue - is that Bernard Miles doesn't present us with a rose-coloured "co-op" success story. They have plenty of glitches, contretemps and the ending is clever and fulfilling, without being cloyingly sentimental. It's emblematic of the start of a new era of industrial relations peppered with some good comedic lines and a genuinely plausible, collaborative, perspective. Definitely worth watching.
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Chance of a Lifetime
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... Director
Cast
... Dickinson
... Baxter
... Stevens
... Morris
... Adam
... Bolger
... Kettle
... Alice
... Xenobian
... Bland
... Miss Cooper
... Palmer
... Xenobian
... Xenobian
... Lady Davis
... Calvert
... Franklin
... Garrett
... Sir Robert Dysart
... Pennington