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{{short description|1947 film by Val Guest}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Just William's Luck
| image = "Just_William's_Luck"_(1947).png
| caption = Cover of the "making of" book
| director = [[Val Guest]]
| producer = James A. Carter (as James Carter)
| writer = [[Richmal Crompton]]<br/>[[Val Guest]]
| starring = William Graham <br/>[[Garry Marsh]]
| music = [[Robert Farnon]]
| cinematography = [[Leslie Rowson]] (uncredited)
| editing = Anne Barker
| distributor = [[United Artists Corporation]]
| released = {{Film date|1947|12|17|London|df=y}}
| runtime = 92 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}

'''''Just William's Luck''''' is a 1947 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Val Guest]] and starring William Graham, [[Garry Marsh]] and [[Jane Welsh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6adcb303|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120802115639/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6adcb303|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-08-02|title=Just William's Luck (1947) - BFI|work=BFI}}</ref> The film was based on the [[Just William (book series)|Just William]] series of books by [[Richmal Crompton]]. Crompton was impressed with the film and wrote a novel ''[[Just William's Luck]]'' based on the events of the film. The following year a second film ''[[William Comes to Town]]'' was made.

==Plot==
William Brown, leader of his gang, "The Outlaws", while exploring/playing in a "[[haunted house]]", stumble across a gang of fur thieves. The children are kidnapped and are bundled into the back of a lorry which drives off. Spotting a large bag of flour, the boys proceed to kick it open. Its contents spill through a gap in the floorboards of the truck's cargo bay. This leaves a trail on the road for the police to follow who ultimately catch and foil the gang of fur robbers.<ref>[[Best Of British (magazine)]]; June 2022 issue; Page 16</ref>

==Cast==
* William Graham - William Brown
* [[Garry Marsh]] - Mr. Brown
* [[Jane Welsh]] - Mrs. Brown
* [[Hugh Cross]] - Robert Brown
* Kathleen Stuart - Ethel Brown
* [[Leslie Bradley]] - The Boss
* [[A. E. Matthews]] - The Tramp
* [[Muriel Aked]] - Emily, the Maid
* [[Brian Roper (actor)|Brian Roper]] - Ginger
* [[Brian Weske]] - Henry
* Audrey Manning - Violet Elizabeth
* [[Hy Hazell]] - Gloria Gail
* [[Patricia Cutts]] - Gloria's Secretary
* James Crabbe - Douglas
* [[Michael Balfour (actor)|Michael Balfour]] - Jenks
* Ivan Hyde - Glazier
* [[Joan Hickson]] - Hubert's Mother
* John Powe - Policeman
* Anne Marie - Masseur
* Leslie Hazell - Hubert's Gang
* Peter David - Hubert's Gang
* [[John O'Hara]] - Hubert's Gang
* [[Michael Medwin]] - The Boss's Gang
* John Martell - Johnnie
* [[Ivan Craig]] - The Boss's Gang

==Critical reception==
''[[Radio Times]]'' wrote, "while William Graham captures something of the scruffy boisterousness of Richmal Crompton's timeless comic creation, director Val Guest's screenplay smoothes away the rougher edges to produce a sanitised tale of childhood mayhem, suitable for young eyes. The same paternalism dogged the sequel, [[William at the Circus]]";<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/cd7sj/just-williams-luck|title=Just William's Luck|author=David Parkinson|work=RadioTimes}}</ref> while [[Sky Movies]] wrote, "it's a lively romp with a jolly knockabout climax in a house that William and his gang of `outlaws' are trying to haunt."<ref>http://skymovies.sky.com/just-williams-luck/review {{Dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* Collins, Fiona & Ridgman, Jeremy. ''Turning the Page: Children's Literature in Performance and the Media''. Peter Lang, 2006.

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0040503|Just William's Luck}}

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