That Lucky Touch Explained

That Lucky Touch
Director:Christopher Miles
Producer:Dimitri de Grunwald
Timothy Burrill
Starring:Roger Moore
Susannah York
Lee J. Cobb
Music:John Scott
Cinematography:Douglas Slocombe
Editing:Tom Priestley
Studio:De Grunwald Productions
Gloria Film
Distributor:Fox-Rank
Allied Artists (US)
Country:United Kingdom
West Germany
Runtime:89 minutes
Budget:£960,858[1]
Language:English

That Lucky Touch is a 1975 British-West German comedy film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Roger Moore, Susannah York and Shelley Winters.[2] [3]

The film was shot at Pinewood Studios, with location shooting around Brussels. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jack Maxsted. It was originally entitled Heaven Save Us from Our Friends.[4]

Plot

An international arms dealer, at a NATO meeting to sell weaponry, becomes entangled with a female journalist from the Washington Post whose worldview is very different to his.

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 263.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090116095334/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/53767 BFI.org.uk
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20131225150043/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/49264/That-Lucky-Touch/overview The New York Times
  4. Review 1—No Title The Guardian (1959–2003) [London (UK)] 5 February 1975: 10.