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Bookmark this pageTrouble 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.Author: PT
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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