Just Joe is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers, and starring Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds, Michael Shepley, and Anna May Wong.[2][3] The screenplay was by Raymond Drewe based on a story by Donald Bull. The unassuming Joe discovers his heroic side when he becomes involved with spies chasing the secret formula of a new detergent.
Plot
Cast
- Leslie Randall as Joe
- Joan Reynolds as Sybil
- Michael Shepley as Fowler
- Anna May Wong as Peach Blossom
- Jon Pertwee as Prendergast
- Howard Pays as Rodney
- Martin Wyldeck as Bill
- Noel Dyson as Myra
- Bruce Seton as Charlie
- David Sale as Carruthers
- Betty Huntley-Wright as Miss Appleby
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite simple and hard-working performances by Joan Reynolds and Leslie Randall, this film remains another lamentable example of the general ineptness of second-feature domestic comedy. The story is soap-opera, the pace slack and the direction lifeless. Michael Shepley and Jon Pertwee overplay their respective roles of peppery employer and zany research chemist in a desperate attempt to win a few laughs. A fight in a detergent laboratory provides a routine slapstick climax."[4]
References
- ^ "JUST JOE - British Board of Film Classification".
- ^ "Just Joe". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
- ^ "Just Joe (1960)". Archived from the original on 18 January 2009.
- ^ "Just Joe". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 27 (312): 114. 1 January 1960. ProQuest 1305823331 – via ProQuest.
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