Jumping for Joy
6.4 /10 1 Votes
Director John Paddy Carstairs Music director Larry Adler Duration Language English | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Romance Producer Raymond Stross Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1956 Writer Henry Blyth, Jack Davies Cast Lindsay Pulsipher (Bobbie Dean), Wayne Sable (Leonard "Squeaky" Pittman), Joe Estevez (Coach Layden)Similar movies Related John Paddy Carstairs movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jumping for joy vocals
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.
Contents
- Jumping for joy vocals
- Jumping for joy trailer
- Plot summary
- Cast
- Critical reception
- Musical score
- References
Jumping for joy trailer
Plot summary
A man buys a greyhound and enters it in a major race, but discovers the dog has one paw in the grave. As our hero nurses the pooch back to health, he also gets mixed up with criminals who want to fix the race by doping dogs.
Cast
Critical reception
Halliwell's Film and Video Guide 2000 describes the film as a "totally predictable star comedy which needs livening up" and the Time Out Film Guide 2009 describes the film as "lame". While TV Guide called the film a "Sporadically funny comedy".
Musical score
The New York Times noted, "the delightful harmonica score in Jumping for Joy is provided by American expatriate Larry Adler".
References
Jumping for Joy WikipediaJumping for Joy IMDb Jumping for Joy themoviedb.org