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((for|the 1928 American comedy silent film|Something Always Happens (1928 film)))
((Use dmy dates|date=May 2016))
((Use British English|date=May 2016))
((Sources|date=February 2024))
((Infobox film
| name           = Something Always Happens
| image          = Something Always Happens.jpg
 
| caption        = [[John Singer (actor)|John Singer]] and Ian Hunter
| director       = [[Michael Powell]]
| producer       = [[Irving Asher]]
| writer         = [[Brock Williams (screenwriter)|Brock Williams]]
| starring       = [[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]]<br/>[[Nancy O'Neil]]
| music          = 
| cinematography = [[Basil Emmott]]
| editing        = Bert Bates<br/>[[Ralph Dawson]]   
| distributor    = [[Warner Bros.]]
| released       = ((film date|df=yes|1934|12|10))
| runtime        = 69 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = [[English language|English]]
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
))
'''''Something Always Happens''''' is a 1934 British romantic comedy film directed by [[Michael Powell]] and starring [[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]] and [[Nancy O'Neil]]. It was made as a [[Cinematograph Films Act 1927|Quota quickie]].<ref name="bfi">((cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1137581/index.html |title=Something Always Happens (1934) |first=Sergio|last=Angelini |work=[[Screenonline]] |access-date=22 February 2024))</ref>

== Plot ==
Peter Middleton is an unemployed car salesman. He rescues hungry street urchin Billy, who has been caught stealing from a [[Hawker (trade)|street vendor]], and takes him under his wing. Peter rents a room. He has no money, but Mrs. Badger, the landlady, is too kindhearted to turn the pair away.

When an acquaintance mentions that he has a client who wants to purchase a 1934 [[Bentley]], Peter sees an opportunity to make a commission and scours the streets. He finds one and brazenly inspects it, much to the puzzlement of the chauffeur. In the process, Peter accidentally backs into Cynthia Hatch. When he pretends the car is his, she gets him to take her to a fine restaurant. She lets him believe she is also out of work, but in reality, she is the Bentley's owner. She is well known to the restaurant staff, but she asks the [[Maître d'hôtel|maitre d']] to pretend to not know her to play a trick on Peter. Peter eventually confesses he has no money. She talks him into trying to see Mr. Hatch, the wealthy head of several petrol-related companies (and her father).

Peter spends all night devising a plan to make petrol stations more attractive to customers by offering additional services, such as dining, dancing and even swimming pools. Meanwhile, Cynthia asks her father to see Peter. The following day, Peter gets to meet Hatch, but Hatch turns him down without even giving Peter a chance to explain his plan. Hatch jokingly suggests he go see Blue Point, a rival which is being beaten down by his company. Peter does so, and is hired as their manager.

Peter makes Blue Point a great success, much to the chagrin of Hatch, who had been hoping to buy the struggling company. Peter hires Cynthia as his secretary, still unaware of her true identity. Within a year, Blue Point has overtaken and soared past Hatch's company. When Peter learns that a bypass is going to be built, he plans to buy sites for petrol stations along the route before Hatch hears about it. However, George Hamlin, Blue Point's publicist, has done such a poor job that Peter threatens to sack him; George betrays the plan to Hatch, who outbids Peter's company for all the sites. After Peter receives the bad news, he sees Cynthia taking money from Hatch and concludes that she betrayed him. When he confronts her, she denies it and storms out, but not before revealing that Hatch is her father. Afterward, Peter learns that the bypass will not be built for another fifteen years. Hatch offers to sell some of his holdings to Peter, those he believes the bypass will make worthless. Knowing otherwise, Peter accepts. After the sale, Hatch learns of the delay and realises he has been outwitted. However, he is not too displeased, having come to respect Peter. When Peter runs into George outside Hatch's office, he realises who the real traitor is. Peter then reconciles with Cynthia, much to her father's secret delight.

== Cast ==
* [[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]] as Peter Middleton
* [[Nancy O'Neil]] as Cynthia Hatch
* [[Peter Gawthorne]] as Ben Hatch
* [[John Singer (actor)|John Singer]] as Billy
* [[Muriel George]] as Mrs. Badger
* [[Barry Livesey]] as George Hamlin

==Production==
Scott Salwolke states that [[Michael Powell]]'s films of this period "were modelled after the screwball comedies coming out of the United States... British directors often worked on films that appropriated their material from the more successful imports".<ref>((cite book |last=Salwolke |first=Scott |year=1997 |title=The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers |location=[[Lanham, Maryland]]; London |url=https://archive.org/details/filmsofmichaelpo0000salw |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |page=25 |isbn=0-8108-3183-X))</ref>

Powell himself names the film as one of "The quota-quickies that I made during the last months of my purgatory for the American [[Irving Asher]]... Irving had the run of the [[Warner Bros.|Warner Brothers]]' library in Hollywood. He had to make about twenty films a year to fulfil his British quota and keep his Warner Brothers' [[Teddington Studios]] running. He went back to California each year with the head of his scenario department, raided the story department at [[Burbank, California|Burbank]] and came back to [[Teddington]] with perhaps fifty scripts that had already been turned into films... All that Irving had to do was hand the script to his story department, who cut it down to fifty pages and handed it over to a director like me. This was how tight little dramas like my ''[[Crown v. Stevens|Crown v Stevens]]'', or comedies like ''Something Always Happens''... arrived on the British screen. I made six or seven of these for Irving..."<ref>((cite book |last=Powell |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Powell |year=1986 |title=A Life in Movies: An Autobiography |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeinmoviesaut00powe |url-access=registration |publisher=[[Alfred A. Knopf]] |page=238 |isbn=0-394-55935-5))</ref>

==References==
((Reflist))	

== External links ==
* ((IMDb title|0025809))
* ((AllMovie title|110932))
* ((TCMDb title|id=555112))
* ((Screenonline title|id=1137581|title=Something Always Happens))
* [http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/34_Something/index.html ''Something Always Happens''] reviews and articles at the [http://www.powell-pressburger.org Powell & Pressburger Pages]

((Powell and Pressburger))

[[Category:1934 films]]
[[Category:British romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Michael Powell]]
[[Category:Films by Powell and Pressburger]]
[[Category:Films about businesspeople]]
[[Category:Quota quickies]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]
[[Category:1934 romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:1930s British films]]

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