Third Time Lucky (1949 film)

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Third Time Lucky
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Directed by Gordon Parry
Written by Gerald Butler
Based on They Cracked Her Glass Slipper by Gerald Butler
Produced by Mario Zampi
Starring Glynis Johns
Dermot Walsh
Charles Goldner
Cinematography Peter Newbrook
Cedric Williams
Edited byGiulio Zampi
Music by Stanley Black
Production
company
Mario Zampi Productions (as Anglofilm)
Distributed by General Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
  • January 1949 (1949-01)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Third Time Lucky (also known as They Cracked Her Glass Slipper [1] ) is a 1949 British crime drama film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh and Charles Goldner; Michael Hordern appears in a small uncredited role. [1] [2] The film was produced by Mario Zampi and released by General Film Distributors. It was written by Gerald Butler based on his 1941 novel They Cracked Her Glass Slipper.

Contents

Premise

A compulsive gambler falls in love with a woman, and believes she is bringing him luck. Unfortunately, she catches the eye of one of his gambling rivals who has set out to ruin him.

Cast

Production

It was shot at Twickenham and Southall Studios in West London.

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The story is novelletish, and the characters are completely artificial. Glynis Johns, as Joan, wears a look of blank astonishment throughout and Dermot Walsh makes the most of the unrewarding part of Lucky, but Harcourt Williams acts everyone off the screen as the drunken old doctor." [3]

Kine Weekly wrote: "Glynis Johns 'never suggests as Joan, the type of girl who would follow a gambler round London's shady night spots and Dermot Walsh, as Lucky, looks even less like a tough punter. Charles Goldner is not much better as Flash, and Harold ('wot a geezer') Berens completely misfires as Cockney-Italian waiter." [4]

Picture Show wrote: "Unconvincing melodrama, set in an unconvincing underworld." [5]

TV Guide gave the film two out of four stars, and called it an "average British programmer". [6]

In The Radio Times Guide to Films David Parkinson gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Dermot Walsh and Glynis Johns just don't set the screen alight and similarly Gordon Parry (in fairness, directing only his second feature) fails to capture the seedy world of gambling dens and backstreet drinking joints. The ending is corny and moralising." [7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Third Time Lucky". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Third Time Lucky | BFI | BFI". Explore.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Third Time Lucky". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 16 (181): 22. 1 January 1949. ProQuest   1305806635.
  4. ↑ "Third Time Lucky". Kine Weekly . 383 (2176): 18. 13 January 1949. ProQuest   2687780087.
  5. ↑ "Third Time Lucky". Picture Show . 53 (1361): 11. 19 February 1949. ProQuest   1880316760.
  6. ↑ "Third Time Lucky Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  7. ↑ Radio Times Guide to Films (18th ed.). London: Immediate Media Company. 2017. p. 927. ISBN   9780992936440.
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