Jumping for Joy

Jumping for Joy
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Directed by	John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by	Raymond Stross
Written by	Henry Blyth Jack Davies
Starring	Frankie Howerd Stanley Holloway Joan Hickson Lionel Jeffries
Music by	Larry Adler
Cinematography	Jack E. Cox
Edited by	John D. Guthridge
Distributed by	The Rank Organisation
Release dates	1956
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Jumping for Joy is a 1956 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, Joan Hickson and Lionel Jeffries.

Plot summary

A man buys a greyhound and enters it in a major race, but discovers the dog has one paw in the grave. As our hero nurses the pooch back to health, he also gets mixed up with criminals who want to fix the race by doping dogs.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Frankie Howerd - Willie Joy
Stanley Holloway - Captain Jack Montague
A. E. Matthews - Lord Reginald Cranfield
Tony Wright - Vincent
Alfie Bass - Blagg
Joan Hickson - Lady Emily Cranfield
Lionel Jeffries - Bert Benton
Susan Beaumont - Susan Storer
Terence Longdon - John Wyndham
Colin Gordon - Max, the commentator
Richard Wattis - Carruthers
Danny Green - Plug Ugly
Barbara Archer - Marlene
William Kendall - Blenkinsop
Ewen Solon - Haines
Reginald Beckwith - Smithers

Critical reception

Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000 describes the film as a "totally predictable star comedy which needs livening up"^[3] and the Time Out Film Guide 2009 describes the film as "lame".^[4] While TV Guide called the film a "Sporadically funny comedy".^[5]

Musical score

The New York Times noted, "the delightful harmonica score in Jumping for Joy is provided by American expatriate Larry Adler".^[6]

References

↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | JUMPING FOR JOY (1956)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
↑ "Jumping-for-Joy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
↑ John Walker (ed.) Halliwell's Film and Video Guide, London: HarperCollins, 1999, p.443
↑ John Pym (ed.) Time Out Film Guide 2009, LOndon: Ebury: 2008, p.552
↑ "Jumping For Joy Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
↑ "Jumping-for-Joy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2014-03-10.

External links

Jumping for Joy at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs

Paris Plane (1933)
Holiday's End (1937)
Double Exposures (1937)
Night Ride (1937)
Missing, Believed Married (1937)
Incident in Shanghai (1938)
Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
The Saint in London (1939)
Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Spare a Copper (1940)
He Found a Star (1941)
Dancing with Crime (1947)
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Fools Rush In (1949)
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
Talk of a Million (1951)
Treasure Hunt (1952)
Made in Heaven (1952)
Top of the Form (1953)
Trouble in Store (1953)
Up to His Neck (1954)
One Good Turn (1955)
Man of the Moment (1955)
Jumping for Joy (1956)
Up in the World (1956)
Just My Luck (1957)
The Big Money (1958)
The Square Peg (1959)
Tommy the Toreador (1959)
Sands of the Desert (1960)
A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
The Devil's Agent (1962)

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