Just Joe is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers, and starring Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds, Michael Shepley, and Anna May Wong.[2][3] The screenplay was by Raymond Drewe based on a story by Donald Bull. The unassuming Joe discovers his heroic side when he becomes involved with spies chasing the secret formula of a new detergent.

Just Joe
Original British Front of House still
Directed byMaclean Rogers
Screenplay byRaymond Drewe
Based onan original story by Donald Bull
Produced byRoger Proudlock
StarringLeslie Randall
Joan Reynolds
Michael Shepley
Anna May Wong
CinematographyGeoffrey Faithfull
Edited byPeter Austen-Hunt
Production
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Roger Proudlock Productions (as Parkside Productions)
Distributed byArchway Film Distributors Ltd. (UK)
Release date
  • July 1960 (1960-07) (UK)
Running time
73 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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Cast

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Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite simple and hard-working performances by Joan Reynolds and Leslie Randall, this film remains another lamentable example of the general ineptness of second-feature domestic comedy. The story is soap-opera, the pace slack and the direction lifeless. Michael Shepley and Jon Pertwee overplay their respective roles of peppery employer and zany research chemist in a desperate attempt to win a few laughs. A fight in a detergent laboratory provides a routine slapstick climax."[4]

References

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  1. ^ "JUST JOE - British Board of Film Classification".
  2. ^ "Just Joe". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Just Joe (1960)". Archived from the original on 18 January 2009.
  4. ^ "Just Joe". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 27 (312): 114. 1 January 1960. ProQuest 1305823331 – via ProQuest.
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