There's Always a Thursday is a 1957 British crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Charles Victor, Jill Ireland, Lloyd Lamble and Robert Raglan. Much of the film was shot at Southall Studios.
Premise
Comedy about a down-trodden clerk's newfound fame as the director of a racy lingerie firm, after an innocent encounter with a fast woman is misreported and earns him the reputation of a suburban Romeo.
Cast
Charles Victor as George Potter
Frances Day as Vera Clandon
Marjorie Rhodes as Marjorie Potter
Bruce Seton as James Pelly
Robert Raglan as Crosby
Jill Ireland as Jennifer Potter
Richard Thorp as Dennis Potter
Lloyd Lamble as Detective Sergeant Bolton
Patrick Holt as Middleton
Ewen Solon as Inspector Bradley
Alex Macintosh as TV Interviewer
Reginald Hearne as Bannister
Deidre Mayne as Miss Morton
Glen Alyn as Mrs. Middleton
Alexander Field as Tramp
Martin Boddey as Sergeant
Critical reception
TV Guide wrote that a "good performance by Victor and an intelligent script lift this one above the ranks." The film historians Steve Chibnall and Brian McFarlane agree: "The film is quite neatly structured but, without the coherence which Victor's sympathetic understanding of the central character gives, it would seem much thinner than it does. Its comedy centres on the drabness of an oppressive domestic situation and, in the flowering of George Potter, what may be lost in unthinking conformity to a routine."