Chance of a Lifetime (film)

Chance of a Lifetime
Directed by	Bernard Miles
Produced by	Bernard Miles
Written by	Walter Greenwood Bernard Miles
Starring	Bernard Miles Basil Radford Kenneth More
Music by	Noel Mewton-Wood
Cinematography	Eric Cross
Editing by	Peter Price
Distributed by	British Lion, Pilgrim Pictures
Release date(s)	1950 (UK) 14 March 1951 (USA)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Chance of a Lifetime is a 1950 British film starring, produced, part-written and directed by Bernard Miles. It was nominated for the 1951 BAFTA for Best British Film, to which it was beaten by The Blue Lamp.

Plot

In the times of austerity after the Second World War a failing factory's owner hands the factory over to the workers to run it for themselves.

Cast

• Basil Radford - Dickinson
• Niall MacGinnis - Baxter
• Bernard Miles - Stevens
• Julien Mitchell - Morris
• Kenneth More - Adam
• Geoffrey Keen - Bolger
• Josephine Wilson - Miss Cooper
• John Harvey - Bland
• Russell Waters - Palmer
• Patrick Troughton - Kettle
• Hattie Jacques - Alice
• Peter Jones, Bernard Rebel and Eric Pohlmann - Xenobian trade delegation
• Amy Veness - Lady Davis
• Stanley Van Beers - Calvert
• Norman Pierce - Franklin
• Gordon McLeod - Garrett
• Compton Mackenzie - Sir Robert Dysart
• Nigel Fitzgerald - Pennington
• Alastair Hunter - Groves
• Molly Palmer - Millie
• George Street and Stanley Rose - Trade Union Men
• Erik Chitty - Silas Pike
• Leonard Sharp - Mitch
• John Boddington - Bank Clerk
• Hilda Fenemore, Helen Harvey, Peggy Ann Clifford, Sam Kydd, Jim Watts, Henry Bryce, Basil Cunard, Anthony Halfpenny, Howell Davies and Donald Tandy - Workers

External links

• Chance of a Lifetime at the Internet Movie Database
• Chance of a Lifetime at AllRovi