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Trouble in Store (1953)

Director: John Paddy Carstairs

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From Time Out Film Guide

First of the Norman Wisdom comedies that provided Rank with a once-a-year commercial lifeline well into the 1960s, and established Wisdom as the natural heir to George Formby. His persona - shy, ever eager, haplessly uncoordinated, inevitably both misunderstood and prone to embarrassing accidents - not only transcended the context of a given film, but usually ended up demolishing it as well, as here where his window-dressing ambitions bring chaos to a department store run by eternal stooge Jerry Desmonde and plagued by shoplifters of Margaret Rutherford's class.

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Cast & crew

Director: John Paddy Carstairs

Producer: Maurice Cowan

Cast: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Lana Morris, Moira Lister, Derek Bond, Jerry Desmonde, Joan Sims, Megs Jenkins full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 85 mins


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