Isn't Life Wonderful!

Isn't Life Wonderful! is a 1953 British Technicolor comedy film directed by Harold French.[4] It was released in the U.S. as Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop, the title of Brock Williams original 1948 novel based on his boyhood experiences.[5] An Edwardian family must deal with its black sheep, the alcoholic Uncle Willie (Donald Wolfit).

Isn't Life Wonderful!
Directed byHarold French
Produced byWarwick Ward
Screenplay byBrock Williams
Based onnovel Uncle Willie and the Bicycle Shop by Brock Williams[1]
StarringCecil Parker
Eileen Herlie
Donald Wolfit
Peter Asher
Music byPhilip Green
CinematographyErwin Hillier
Edited byEdward B. Jarvis
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British-Pathé (UK)
Release date
16 November 1953
Running time
81 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£97,710[3]

Plot

In Edwardian England, alcoholic Uncle Willie (Donald Wolfit) is an embarrassment to his family. Head of the household father (Cecil Parker), decides to set Willie up as the manager of a bicycle shop, hoping to impress visiting American heiress Virginia van Stuyden (Dianne Foster). The surprise for everyone comes when Uncle Willie's little shop begins to prosper.

Cast

Critical reception

TV Guide called it "A pleasant little charmer";[6] while Sky Cinema wrote, "Director Harold French skilfully milks its situations for all they are worth...No big stars in this film, which makes it an unexpected treat. Based on an equally entertaining novel Uncle Willie and the Bicycle Shop. Donald Wolfit stars as the alcoholic Uncle Willie, Cecil Parker suffers splendidly as Father."[7]

gollark: "It's only real work if you do manual labour, because that was around longer and is thus evidently the only valid kind, and it looks more difficult to me."
gollark: Yes, that is silly people being silly.
gollark: You're not really paying them for either as much as just the fact that they can do/make the thing you want and you are, presumably, willing to pay the price they ask for. Going around trying to judge someone else's "worth" in some way is problematic.
gollark: The learning time is amortized over all the other programming stuff they do, and it's not like they would somehow unlearn everything if you didn't pay more. Still, it is somewhat complicated and, er, possibly impossible, although if people want to do it (they regularly do complex things anyway if they're interesting) then why not.
gollark: Honestly it's not *that* practical a lot of the time because doing complex things is very hard and slow.

References
  1. bnpfl4U3PT5S16ipZKL-nHP1psI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQsMHS6LjWAhXEI1AKHf8TCDwQ6AEIQzAJ#v=onepage&q=Isn't+Life+Wonderful!+literary+sources+in+film&f=false | title = The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film | first = Alan | last = Goble | date = 1 January 1999 | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | via = Google Books }}
  2. "ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
  3. Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p502
  4. "Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953)".
  5. 'https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27578183
  6. "Isn't Life Wonderful!". TVGuide.com.
  7. "Isn't Life Wonderful!".


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