Jumping for Joy

Jumping for Joy
Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Produced by Raymond Stross
Written by Henry Blyth
Jack Davies
Starring Frankie Howerd
Stanley Holloway
Joan Hickson
Lionel Jeffries
Music by Larry Adler
Cinematography Jack E. Cox
Editing by John D. Guthridge
Distributed by The Rank Organisation
Release date(s) 1956
Running time 91 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Jumping for Joy is a 1956 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, Joan Hickson and Lionel Jeffries. A man buys a greyhound and enters it in a major race, but gets mixed up with criminals who want to fix the race by doping dogs.[1]

Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000 describes the film as a "totally predictable star comedy which needs livening up"[2] and the Time Out Film Guide 2009 describes the film as "lame".[3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/38553
  2. ^ John Walker (ed.) Halliwell's Film and Video Guide, London: HarperCollins, 1999, p.443
  3. ^ John Pym (ed.) Time Out Film Guide 2009, LOndon: Ebury: 2008, p.552

Jumping for Joy at the Internet Movie Database