Just My Luck (1957 film)

Norman Hackett (Norman Wisdom) is employed in a jeweller's workshop and is innocently preoccupied with dreaming of meeting the window dresser in the shop across the street from his workplace. He wishes to purchase a diamond pendant for her and, after persuasion, gambles a pound on a six-horse accumulator at the Goodwood races. The bookmaker grows concerned when it appears Hackett, after winning on the first five races, could win over £16,000.

• Norman Wisdom as Norman Hackett (and his own father)
• Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Dooley
• Jill Dixon as Anne
• Leslie Phillips as the Hon. Richard Lumb
• Delphi Lawrence as Miss Daviot
• Joan Sims as Phoebe
• Edward Chapman as Mr. Stoneway
• Peter Copley as Gilbert Weaver
• Vic Wise as Eddie Diamond
• Marjorie Rhodes as Mrs. Hackett
• Michael Ward as Cranley
• Marianne Stone as Tea Bar Attendant
• Felix Felton as Man in Cinema
• Michael Brennan as Masseur
• Cyril Chamberlain as Goodwood Official
• Eddie Leslie as Gas Man
• Freda Bamford as Mrs. Crossley
• Robin Bailey as Steward
• Campbell Cotts as Steward
• Sam Kydd as Craftsman
• Raymond Francis as Ritchie
• Ballard Berkeley as Starter at Goodwood (uncredited)
• Jerry Desmonde as Racegoer (uncredited)

According to the BFI Screenonline website, "Just My Luck is not a piece of comedic genius, nor even the best of Wisdom's films, but it's an amiable, well-constructed piece that recalls a gentler age".[1]

Kinematograph Weekly listed it as being "in the money" at the British box office in 1958.[2]

• Just My Luck on IMDb