Chance of a Lifetime (1950)
3.4 of 5 from 48 ratings
1h 29min
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- Synopsis:
- Story centers around the difficulties and conflicts between labor and management on a farm-implement factory in post-WWII England. Dickinson (Basil Radford), after being bombarded again by, Baxter (Niall MacGinnis), the leading grouser in the worker ranks, blurts out the wish that some of them had his job in order to realize how hard it is. Taking the remark as a challenge, the workers elect Stevens (Bernard Miles) and Morris (Julien Mitchell) to assume the management role. For a short while, everything runs smoothly but the mistakes made by the new "management" team leads to the workers once again becoming disgruntled with management.
- Actors:
- Basil Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Julien Mitchell, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen, Josephine Wilson, John Harvey, Russell Waters, Patrick Troughton, Hattie Jacques, Peter Jones, Bernard Rebel, Eric Pohlmann, Amy Veness
- Directors:
- Bernard Miles
- Writers:
- Walter Greenwood, Bernard Miles
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- Getting to Know: Kenneth More
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