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Jumping for Joy (Original title)
Dates: 1956 (Copyright), 13 February 1956 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: John Paddy Carstairs

Synopsis: Ex-dog track worker buys a greyhound and wins a classic race with him after a tussle with some crooks.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Gambling
Releases
Date: 1956Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 88 mins Length: 7962 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (26)
©/Production Company: J. Arthur Rank Film Productions, Presents: The Rank Organisation, [Production Company]: Raymond Stross Productions, closing logo: British and Dominions Film Corporation, Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Produced by: Raymond Stross, Production Manager: Jack Swinburne, Production Controller: Arthur Alcott, Assistant Director: Robert Asher, Continuity: Kathleen Hosgood, Original Story and Screenplay by: Jack Davies, Henry E. Blyth, Director of Photography: Jack Cox, Camera Operator: Jim Bawden, Special Effects: W. Warrington, Editor: John D. Guthridge, Art Director: Michael Stringer, Costume Designer: Joan Ellacott, Make Up: W.T. Partleton, Music composed and played by: Larry Adler, [Music] Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recordist: John Dennis, Gordon K. McCallum, Sound Editor: James Groom, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (45)
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 Stora), Terence Longdon (John Wyndham), Colin Gordon (Max, racing commentator), Richard Wattis (Mr Carruthers, tie salesman), Danny Green (Plug Ugly), Barbara Archer (Marlene), William Kendall (Blenkinsop), Ewen Solon (Haines), Reginald Beckwith (Mr Smithers, the tailor), Beatrice Varley ([landlady]), Michael Ward ([Pertwee, clothing shop manager]), David Hannaford ([boy with pike in park]), Charles Hawtrey ([man at racetrack bar]), Bill Fraser ([drunken billiard player]), Arthur Mullard (['Ireland Forever' in billiards saloon]), Ian Wilson ([man in telephone booth]), George A. Cooper ([farmer]), Gerald Campion ([racegoer with ice cream]), Tom Gill ([Barry]), John Warren ([track announcer]), Jack Lambert ([Clinton]), A.J. Dean ([uncredited]), Frederick Treves ([attendant]), Andrew Faulds ([drunk's friend]), Stuart Saunders, Richard Dunn ([fat policeman]), Joyce Gardner ([billiards player]), Jack Newmark ([little man]), Geoffrey King ([prosperous man]), Arthur Lovegrove ([tough]), Leonard Morris ([newspaper man]), Reginald Atkinson ([car owner]), Terence Mitchell ([youth]), Brian Sunners ([fat policeman]), Joan Ingram ([nurse]), Peter Fontaine ([patient]), David Ghilchilc ([mayor]), Jo Ann Matthews ([bookie])