Chance of a Lifetime
1950 | 89m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Bernard Miles |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Apr 24, 1950 |
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| Director: | Bernard Miles |
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| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | factory, trade union, labor union, plough |
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| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Basil Radford | Dickinson |
| Niall MacGinnis | Baxter |
| Bernard Miles | Stevens |
| Julien Mitchell | Morris |
| Kenneth More | Adam |
| Geoffrey Keen | Bolger |
| Patrick Troughton | Kettle |
| Hattie Jacques | Alice |
| Eric Pohlmann | Xenobian |
| John Harvey | Bland |
| Josephine Wilson | Miss Cooper |
| Russell Waters | Palmer |
| Peter Jones | Xenobian |
| Bernard Rebel | Xenobian |
| Amy Veness | Lady Davis |
| Stanley Van Beers | Calvert |
| Norman Pierce | Franklin |
| Gordon McLeod | Garrett |
| Compton MacKenzie | Sir Robert Dysart |
| Nigel Fitzgerald | Pennington |
| Alastair Hunter | Groves |
| Mollie Palmer | Millie |
| George Street | 1st Trade Union Man |
| Stanley Rose | 2nd Trade Union Man |
| Erik Chitty | Silas Pike |
| Leonard Sharp | Mitch |
| John Boddington | Bank Clerk |
| Hilda Fenemore | Worker |
| Helen Harvey | Worker |
| Peggy Ann Clifford | Worker |
| Sam Kydd | Worker |
| Jim Watts | Worker |
| Henry Bryce | Worker |
| Basil Cunard | Worker |
| Tony Halfpenny | Worker |
| Howell Davies | Worker |
| Donald Tandy | Worker |
| Noel Dyson | Tea Lady |
| Name | Job |
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| Bernard Miles | Director |
| Wally Fairweather | Clapper Loader |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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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 in ... stead. 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.