Chance of a Lifetime

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

1950

1h 29min

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Top Billed Cast

Basil Radford
Dickinson
Niall MacGinnis
Baxter
Bernard Miles
Stevens
Julien Mitchell
Morris
Kenneth More
Adam
Geoffrey Keen
Bolger
Patrick Troughton
Kettle
Hattie Jacques
Alice
Eric Pohlmann
Xenobian
John Harvey
Bland
Josephine Wilson
Miss Cooper
Russell Waters
Palmer
Peter Jones
Xenobian
Bernard Rebel
Xenobian
Amy Veness
Lady Davis
Stanley Van Beers
Calvert
Norman Pierce
Franklin
Gordon McLeod
Garrett
Nigel Fitzgerald
Pennington
Alastair Hunter
Groves

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