There's Always a Thursday

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There's Always a Thursday
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Directed by Charles Saunders
Written by Brandon Fleming
Produced by Guido Coen
Starring Charles Victor
Jill Ireland
Cinematography Brendan J. Stafford
Edited byTom Simpson
Music by Reg Owen
Anthony Spurgin
Distributed byAssociated Sound Film Industries
Release date
1957
Running time
60 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

There's Always a Thursday is a 1957 British comedy crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Charles Victor, Jill Ireland, Lloyd Lamble and Robert Raglan. [1]

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Plot

A down-trodden clerk's finds newfound fame as the director of a racy lingerie firm, after an innocent encounter with a fast woman is misreported and earns him the reputation of a suburban Romeo.

Cast

Production

Much of the film was shot at Southall Studios. [2] [3]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A light-hearted, heavy-handed domestic comedy, with the satirical point that the way to success is to acquire an undeserved reputation as a philanderer. Charles Victor and Marjorie Rhodes give amusing 'character' performances, but the rest of the cast, including Frances Day, exhibit no striking aptitude." [4]

TV Guide wrote that a "good performance by Victor and an intelligent script lift this one above the ranks." [5]

The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane wrote: "The film is quite neatly structured but, without the coherence which Victor's sympathetic understanding of the central character gives, it would seem much thinner than it does. Its comedy centres on the drabness of an oppressive domestic situation and, in the flowering of George Potter, what may be lost in unthinking conformity to a routine." [6]

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References

  1. "There's Always a Thursday". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  2. "There's Always a Thursday (1957) - BFI". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012.
  3. "Southall Studios".
  4. "There's Always a Thursday". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 24 (276): 62. 1 January 1957 via ProQuest.
  5. "There's Always A Thursday". TV Guide.
  6. Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, The British 'B' Film, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, p. 204.