''There's Always a Thursday'' is a 1957 British

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combin ...

directed by Charles Saunders and starring

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, Jill Ireland, Lloyd Lamble and

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. Much of the film was shot at

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Premise

Comedy about a down-trodden clerk's 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

as George Potter *

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as Vera Clandon * Marjorie Rhodes as Marjorie Potter *

Bruce Seton Sir Bruce Lovat Seton, 11th Baronet (29 May 1909 – 28 September 1969) was a British actor and soldier. He is best remembered for his eponymous lead role in ''Fabian of the Yard''. Early life Bruce Lovat Seton was born in Simla, British Ind ...

as James Pelly *

as Crosby * Jill Ireland as Jennifer Potter * Richard Thorp as Dennis Potter * Lloyd Lamble as Detective Sergeant Bolton * Patrick Holt as Middleton * Ewen Solon as Inspector Bradley *

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as TV Interviewer * Reginald Hearne as Bannister * Deidre Mayne as Miss Morton *

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as Mrs. Middleton * Alexander Field as Tramp *

Martin Boddey Albert Martin Boddey (16 April 1907 – 24 October 1975) was a British film and television actor. He was a founder member of the Lord's Taverners charity. Boddey started acting when he was nearly 40, often portraying irritable authority fig ...

as Sergeant

Critical reception

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'' wrote that a "good performance by Victor and an intelligent script lift this one above the ranks." The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane agree: "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."Steve Chibnall & Brian McFarlane, ''The British 'B' Film'', Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2009, p. 204.

References

External links

* British crime films 1957 films 1957 crime films Films directed by Charles Saunders Films shot at Southall Studios 1950s English-language films 1950s British films {{1950s-crime-film-stub