One Good Turn (1955 film)

One Good Turn is a 1955 British comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Norman Wisdom, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair and Thora Hird.

He regards the staff and children there as his family, and when Jimmy, one of the boys, sets his heart on a model car which he has seen in a shop window, Norman is determined to raise the money to buy it.

On leaving the train, he is chased by the police and disguises his appearance by joining the final stage of the London to Brighton walking race.

Due to his advantage in joining so late, he wins, but fails to sell the silver cup he has been awarded to a pawnbroker, who thinks the trophy has been stolen.

The manager comes out searching for the orchestra conductor and mistakes Norman as the missing man (his candy floss stick look like a baton).

After a short section of normality where the orchestra play Lohengrin Norman decides to move to big band music.

[6] In a Radio Times review written many decades later, it was asserted: "this is the cleverly constructed follow-up to Norman Wisdom's smash-hit debut Trouble in Store.