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{{Infobox film
| name = It's Hard to Be Good
| image = It's_Hard_to_Be_Good_(1948_film).jpg
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| caption = Original British poster
| director = [[Jeffrey Dell]]
| producer = John W. Gossage
| writer = Jeffrey Dell
| based_on =
| narrator =
| starring = {{ubl|[[Jimmy Hanley]]|[[Anne Crawford]]|[[Raymond Huntley]]}}
| music = [[Antony Hopkins]]
| cinematography = Laurie Friedman
| editing = [[Helga Cranston]]
| studio = [[Two Cities Films]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] (UK)
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1948|11|10|London, UK}}
| runtime = 93 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = [[English language|English]]
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'''''It's Hard to Be Good''''' is a 1948 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Jeffrey Dell]] and starring [[Jimmy Hanley]], [[Anne Crawford]] and [[Raymond Huntley]].<ref name=bfi>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ad62e64|title=It's Hard to Be Good (1948)|website=BFI}}</ref> In the film, an ex-army officer finds his altruistic attempts to improve the world are unsuccessful.<ref>Gillett p.23</ref>

It was shot at [[Denham Studios]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Alex Vetchinsky]].<ref name=bfi/>

==Plot==
On leaving the army, officer and war hero Captain James Gladstone Wedge (Jimmy Hanley) is full of idealism about bettering the world. He falls in love with Mary Leighton (Anne Crawford), who nursed him whilst he was recovering from his wartime injuries. He bungles a proposal to her at a railway station after being demobed, ([[Demobilization]]), but his good-nature had already convinced her that she should marry him.

Jimmy's attempts to promote goodwill and community spirit amongst his relatives and neighbours are always frustrated, due to their innate hostilities, which the latest collaborative war efforts did nothing to dispell. All his attempts at neighbourhood reconciliation having failed, and seeing that people have put their trust in the same status-quo of conflict after the war that existed before, Jimmy finally settles into a flat with Mary, and ends the film by loudly playing his trumpet in response to all the thoughtless noise around him, no longer caring what people might think.

==Cast==
* [[Anne Crawford]] as Mary Leighton
* [[Jimmy Hanley]] as Captain James Gladstone Wedge [[Victoria Cross|VC]]
* [[Raymond Huntley]] as Williams
* [[Edward Rigby]] as Parkinson
* [[Elwyn Brook-Jones]] as Budibent
* [[Joyce Carey]] as Alice Beckett
* [[Geoffrey Keen]] as Sergeant Todd
* [[Lana Morris]] as Daphne
* [[David Horne (actor)|David Horne]] as Edward Beckett
* [[Muriel Aked]] as Ellen Beckett
* [[Cyril Smith (actor)|Cyril Smith]] as Fred Hobson
* [[Leslie Weston]] as Buck
* [[Alison Leggatt]] as Mrs Buck
* [[Robert Adair (actor)|Robert Adair]] as Committee Man
* [[Francis De Wolff]] as Fighting Neighbour
* [[Judith Furse]] as Sister Taylor
* [[Colin Gordon]] as Neighbour with Baby
* [[Joan Hickson]] as Mending Woman
* [[Sam Kydd]] as Husband
* [[Leslie Perrins]] as Major Gordon
* [[Wensley Pithey]] as Vicar
* [[Walter Rilla]] as Kamerovsky
* [[John Salew]] as Committee Man
* [[Marianne Stone]] as Clerk in Newspaper Office
* [[Merle Tottenham]] as Mrs. Hobson
* [[Ian Wilson (actor)|Ian Wilson]] as Fighting Neighbour
* [[Joan Newell]] as Woman Shopper
* [[Amy Dalby]] as Bargee's Wife (uncredited)
* [[Gwen Williams]] as Woman in Town Hall (uncredited)
* Dudley Williams as Barman (uncredited)
* Guy Verney as Lieutenant (uncredited)
* Isola Strong as Girl in Post Office (uncredited)
* HG Stoker as Elderly Man (uncredited)
* George Spence as Annoyed Neighbour (uncredited)
* [[John Singer (actor)|John Singer]] as Cameraman (uncredited)
* Ian Selby as Pedestrian outside Buckingham Palace (uncredited)

==Critical reception==
In his book ''Forgotten British Film'', Philip Gillett argued that "The satirical ''It's Hard to be Good'' (1948) deserves rescuing from obscurity, with its decorated hero looking for a niche in an uncaring peacetime world."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2HXDgAAQBAJ&q=it%27s+hard+to+be+good+1948&pg=PA23|title=Forgotten British Film: Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema|first=Philip|last=Gillett|date=11 May 2017|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781443891851|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Gillett, Philip. ''Forgotten British Film: Value and the Ephemeral in Postwar Cinema''. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0042606}}

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