Stars: Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Thora Hird

Director: John Paddy Carstairs

Summary: Norman has promised an orphan a model car, but has no money. Proving his ability to be equally bad at every profession, he tries his hand at almost everything to raise the money.

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Reunited with many of the team behind Trouble in Store (1953), his smash hit of the previous year, for his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home. Having being raised in the home Norman has stayed on as odd-job man, a role which ideally suits his man-child persona. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing and it is simply impossible not to like Norman Wisdom. The film's success led directly to the aptly named Man of the Moment (1955). --Gary S Dalkin

Aspect Ratio:	4:3
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	None
Year:	1954
Release Date:	November 12, 2001
Runtime:	91 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C C D 8808
Label:	Carlton
Keywords:	One, Comedy, General, Turn, Good
Genre:	Comedy