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Director:
Gordon Parry
Writers:
Gerald Butler (novel)
Gerald Butler (screenplay)
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Release Date:
1949 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Decidedly novellettish more

Cast

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Glynis Johns ... Joan
Dermot Walsh ... Lucky
Charles Goldner ... Flash
Harcourt Williams ... Doc
Yvonne Owen ... Peggy
Helen Haye ... Old Lady
John Stuart ... Inspector
Harold Berens ... Young Waiter
Ballard Berkeley ... Bertram
Sebastian Cabot ... Bennett
Millicent Wolf ... Matron
Jean Short ... Nurse
Jack Tottenham ... Croupier
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Tom Block
Marianne Deeming ... Madame Therese
Bruce Walker
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min | West Germany:95 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
West Germany:16 | Sweden:15

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Decidedly novellettish, 12 November 2005
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Author: JasonTomes from United Kingdom

"Third Time Lucky" is a rather predictable romance aimed primarily at women. It shows in extended flashback how Joan (Glynis Johns), a nice young lady from Finchley, comes to get incongruously mixed up with Soho gangsters and guns. A chance encounter with a debonair professional gambler called Lucky (Dermot Walsh) draws her into a glamorous and unfamiliar world of roulette, champagne, and Mayfair nightclubs. Eventually, of course, Lucky fails to merit his name - and then dear Joan finds herself in danger of going to the dogs (and I don't just mean the greyhound races).

This is a passable film on its own decidedly novellettish terms. It even features a recurring song in Ivor Novello style with the title "Forgive me for dreaming". There are melodramatic moments and the last half-hour may tax the patience.

"Are we really still in London?" Joan asks at one point. Well may she wonder. "Third Time Lucky" is less an evocation of post-war Britain than a modest attempt to replicate the high-life and low-life milieux of a certain type of American popular movie of that era. Import substitution to help the balance of the payments perhaps?

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