Touch and Go
Synopsis
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.
Main Cast
Jack Hawkins
Jim Fletcher
Margaret Johnston
Helen Fletcher
June Thorburn
Peggy Fletcher
Roland Culver
Reg Fairbright
John Fraser
Richard Kenyon
James Hayter
Kimball
Alison Leggatt
Alice Fairbright
Margaret Halstan
Mrs Pritchett
Henry B. Longhurst
Mr Pritchett
Basil Dignam
Stevens
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
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.
