Chance of a Lifetime: Bernard Miles’s blue-collar satire shows what happens when the workers at a plough factory, protesting at their low wages and appalling conditions, are given the opportunity to run the place themselves. Which all sounds like a dream come true (as typified by the title), until they begin to realize the pitfalls of management.
It’s a brave film, whose blend of comedy and drama doesn’t always work, yet somehow its earnestness and effort to make a serious point about business hierarchy give it an edge that many homegrown efforts lack.
CAST
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
CREW
Director Bernard Miles
Clapper Loader Wally Fairweather
UK / 89 minutes / Released 1950-04-24
