Touch and Go

Touch and Go

1h 25m 6.3/10

Overview

When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.

Director

David Middlemas

Top Billed Cast

Jack Hawkins

Jack Hawkins

Jim Fletcher

John Fraser

John Fraser

Richard Kenyon

Roland Culver

Roland Culver

Reg Fairbright

James Hayter

James Hayter

Kimball

June Thorburn

June Thorburn

Peggy Fletcher

Margaret Johnston

Margaret Johnston

Helen Fletcher

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

11/14/2022

7/10

Jack Hawkins is "Fletcher" who is tired of working at a furniture company which refuses to adopt his new designs. When he finally reaches the end of his creative tether, he, wife "Helen" (Margaret Leighton) and daughter "Peggy" (June Thorburn) decide to emigrate to Australia! All goes well enough, he quits his job and they start to plan, but soon the daughter falls for a young man, and "Helen" starts to get cold feet... It's a bit of a one-joke film, this, but Hawkins is on good form as was writer William Rose and director Michael Truman and the story moves along, quite wittily on occasion, at one heck of a pace towards an increasingly obvious conclusion. Certainly worth a watch.

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