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Where There's a Will

Where There's a Will

  • Status: Released
  • 01-03-1955
  • Runtime: 80 min
  • Score: 6.4
  • Vote count: 6

A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.

Kathleen Harrison

Annie Yeo

George Cole

Fred Slater

Leslie Dwyer

Alfred "Alfie" Brewer

Ann Hanslip

June Hodge

Edward Woodward

Ralph Stokes

Dandy Nichols

Maud Hodge

Thelma Ruby

Amy Slater

Edward Lexy

Mafeking Brewer

Michael Shepley

Mr. Cogent

Hugh Morton

Mr. Arscott

Norman MacOwan

Cagey

Philip Ray

Squire Stokes

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I suppose most of us, if told we had inherited something, would find our eyes light up. Not so much this family of East London Cockneys who have inherited a run-down old farm in Devon after it's owner had a rather terminal encounter with a land mine. It is about as far away from London as they can go without a passport (assuming any of them actually had one). Upon arrival, they discover it's pretty much a dump and they are keen to just be rid of the place - and, fortunately, there are no shortage of folks wanting to obtain the land. Snag is, one of the family - "Alfie" (Leslie Dwyer) decides that he is tired of working in a bathhouse, and his niece "June" (Ann Hanslip) who is equally fed up with the relentless drudge of 1950s London life decides to help him make a go of the enterprise. What now ensues are a series of enjoyable escapades as they are, quite literally, fleeced by the locals, the ever pervasive Ministry and are soon ruing the day they ever saw the place. It is one of these gently internecine dramas, with everyone trying to pull a flanker before an ending that is as inevitable as it is enjoyable. It's maybe its a bit too basic, this - charming, yes - but the script and characterisations are little better than adaptations that might have worked (or, maybe did) better on the wireless. Still, it is quite a fun tale that raises a smile and makes you rethink that expression about gift horses