Just Joe | |
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Directed by | Maclean Rogers |
Screenplay by | Raymond Drewe |
Based on | an original story by Donald Bull |
Produced by | Roger Proudlock |
Starring | Leslie Randall Joan Reynolds Michael Shepley Anna May Wong |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull |
Edited by | Peter Austen-Hunt |
Production company | Roger Proudlock Productions (as Parkside Productions) |
Distributed by | Archway Film Distributors Ltd. (UK) |
Release date |
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Running time | 73 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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.
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]