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One Good Turn

Comedy

One Good Turn

A Riotous Round of Fun!

6.2(12) 1/4/1955 1h 30m
Comedy

Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "Never seen the Sea". When they get back they discover the plan to close the orphanage and have to decide what to do

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Top Cast

Norman Wisdom

Norman Wisdom

Norman

Joan Rice

Joan Rice

Iris

SA

Shirley Abicair

Mary

Thora Hird

Thora Hird

Cook

William Russell

William Russell

Alec Bigley

Joan Ingram

Joan Ingram

Matron Sparrow

Richard Caldicot

Richard Caldicot

Mr. Bigley

MF

Marjorie Fender

Tuppeny

Directed by

John Paddy Carstairs

Production

Reviews

John Chard

7/10

8/10/2019

Bullish Brighton Buffoonery! One Good Turn is directed by John Paddy Carstairs and Carstairs co-writes the screenplay with Sid Colin, Maurice Cowan, Talbot Rothwell, Dorothy Whipple and Ted Willis. It stars Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Thora Hird, William Russell, Joan Ingram and Richard Caldicot. Music is by John Addison and cinematography by Jack E. Cox. Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and has slotted into the furniture as the unpaid caretaker. The happiness and tranquillity of The Orphanage is greatly disrupted when it comes to light that the Orphanage chairman wants to sell it and turn it into a factory. Can the staff, the kids and the biggest kid of them all - Norman - stop the scheming rotter? A delight for Wisdom fans, this monochrom

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