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	==Musical score==		==Musical score==
	''[[The New York Times]]'' noted, "the delightful harmonica score in ''Jumping for Joy'' is provided by American expatriate [[Larry Adler]]".<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/97405/Jumping-for-Joy/overview \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306160024/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/97405/Jumping-for-Joy/overview \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=2014-03-06 \|department=Movies & TV Dept. \|work=[[The New York Times]] \|publisher=[[Baseline (database)\|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] \|author=Hal Erickson \|title=Jumping-for-Joy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes \|author-link=Hal Erickson (author) \|date=2014 \|access-date=2014-03-10}}</ref>		''[[The New York Times]]'' noted, "the delightful harmonica score in ''Jumping for Joy'' is provided by American expatriate [[w:Larry Adler\|Larry Adler]]".<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/97405/Jumping-for-Joy/overview \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306160024/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/97405/Jumping-for-Joy/overview \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=2014-03-06 \|department=Movies & TV Dept. \|work=[[The New York Times]] \|publisher=[[Baseline (database)\|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] \|author=Hal Erickson \|title=Jumping-for-Joy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes \|author-link=Hal Erickson (author) \|date=2014 \|access-date=2014-03-10}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==

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	==External links==		==External links==
	* {{IMDb title\|0048237}}		* {{IMDb title\|0048237}}

	~~{{John Paddy Carstairs}}~~

	[[Category:1956 films]]		[[Category:1956 films]]

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{{short description|1956 film by John Paddy Carstairs}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Jumping for Joy
| image = "Jumping_For_Joy"_(1956).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Original campaign book
| director = [[John Paddy Carstairs]]
| producer = [[Raymond Stross]]
| writer = {{ubl|Henry Blyth|[[Jack Davies (screenwriter)|Jack Davies]]}}
| narrator =
| music = [[Larry Adler]]
| cinematography = [[Jack E. Cox]]
| editing = [[John D. Guthridge]]
| starring = {{ubl|[[Frankie Howerd]]|[[Stanley Holloway]]|[[Joan Hickson]]|[[Lionel Jeffries]]}}
| distributor = [[The Rank Organisation]]
| released = 21 February 1956
| runtime = 91 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}

'''''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]].

==Plot ==
Willie Joy ([[Frankie Howerd]]) works at a [[greyhound track]] as a cleaner, which involves his picking up droppings from the dog track between races. He is tricked into standing in the line of the lure and falls on it as it speeds passed with the dogs chasing it. He gets fired. This times itself with a useless dog also being let go by an owner (Bert Benton) and Joy plays a small sum and takes it home. His landlady is less than pleased at a dog in his room and evicts him.

He meets Captain Montague ([[Stanley Holloway]]) and together they hatch a plan to make money from the dog. They give it the name of "Lindy Lou".

To play the part Joy steals a top hat and tails to wear to the races at [[White City Stadium]] ([[London]]). When Lindy starts to prove herself at the trials Benton wants to buy her back.

Wandering around the East End he foolishly enters a snooker hall and flashes £20 around. A pretty girl tries to hustle him out of the money by playing a snooker set. Various crooks use Joy as an unwitting collaborator in fixing races and placing large bets.

The crooks pass doped meat to be given to the dog but Joy and Montague eat it themselves. The crooks find them asleep but cannot find the dog. They detach the Captain's railway carriage home and move it onto an active railway line. When they awake they are told by a local that they are near [[Doncaster]]. The dog is rescued just before the carriage is hit by a train. They re-encounter Lord and Lady Cranfield (from whom he earlier stole the suit) and they give him a lift to the White City.

Lindy Lou wins the Gold Cup but only due to a distraction in crowd as Joy hits a policeman to ensue a whistle is blown. He is arrested and recognises the distinctive shoes of Haines of Scotland Yard as the ringleader of the crooks.

He also gets mixed up with criminals who want to fix the race by [[Use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport|doping]] dogs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/38553 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114065437/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/38553 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-01-14 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | JUMPING FOR JOY (1956) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |date=2009-04-16 |access-date=2014-03-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/97405/Jumping-for-Joy/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306160024/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/97405/Jumping-for-Joy/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-03-06 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] |author=Hal Erickson |title=Jumping-for-Joy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2014 |access-date=2014-03-10}}</ref> The greyhound in the film called Lindy Lou was actually a racing greyhound called Moyshna Queen from [[Wandsworth Stadium]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Genders|first=Roy|title=The Encyclopedia of Greyhound Racing|year=1981|publisher=Pelham Books Ltd|isbn=07207-1106-1}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Frankie Howerd]] as Willie Joy
* [[Stanley Holloway]] as Captain Jack Montague
* [[A. E. Matthews]] as Lord Reginald Cranfield
* [[Tony Wright (actor)|Tony Wright]] as Vincent
* [[Alfie Bass]] as Mr Blagg
* [[Joan Hickson]] as Lady Emily Cranfield
* [[Lionel Jeffries]] as Bert Benton
* [[Susan Beaumont]] as Susan Storer
* [[Terence Longdon]] as John Wyndham
* [[Colin Gordon]] as Max, the commentator
* [[Richard Wattis]] as Carruthers
* [[Danny Green (actor)|Danny Green]] as Plug Ugly
* [[Barbara Archer]] as Marlene
* [[William Kendall (actor)|William Kendall]] as Blenkinsop
* [[Ewen Solon]] as Haines
* [[Reginald Beckwith]] as Smithers
* [[Charles Hawtrey (actor, born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] as Man at Bar (uncredited)
* [[Bill Fraser]] as drunk in snooker hall (uncredited)
* [[George A. Cooper]] as farmer who tells them they are near Doncaster (uncredited)
* [[Andrew Faulds]] as friend of drunk man (uncredited)
* [[Richard Dunn (actor)|Richard Dunn]] as policeman (uncredited)
* [[Joyce Gardner]] as the pool room hustler (uncredited) - Joyce was a well known professional pool player at the time, not an actress
* [[Beatrice Varley]] as Joy's landlady (uncredited)
* [[John Warren (actor)|John Warren]] as main commentator (uncredited)
* [[Tom Gill (actor)|Tom Gill]] as second commentator (uncredited)

==Critical reception==
''Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000'' describes the film as a "totally predictable star comedy which needs livening up"<ref>John Walker (ed.) ''Halliwell's Film and Video Guide'', London: HarperCollins, 1999, p.443</ref> and the ''Time Out Film Guide 2009'' describes the film as "lame".<ref>John Pym (ed.) ''Time Out Film Guide 2009'', LOndon: Ebury: 2008, p.552</ref> While ''[[TV Guide]]'' called the film a "Sporadically funny comedy".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/jumping-for-joy/review/102942 |title=Jumping For Joy Review |publisher=Movies.tvguide.com |access-date=2014-03-10}}</ref>

==Musical score==
''[[The New York Times]]'' noted, "the delightful harmonica score in ''Jumping for Joy'' is provided by American expatriate [[Larry Adler]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/97405/Jumping-for-Joy/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306160024/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/97405/Jumping-for-Joy/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-03-06 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] |author=Hal Erickson |title=Jumping-for-Joy - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2014 |access-date=2014-03-10}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0048237}}

{{John Paddy Carstairs}}

[[Category:1956 films]]
[[Category:1956 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Pinewood Studios]]
[[Category:Films and television featuring Greyhound racing]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:Greyhound racing films]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:1950s British films]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]

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