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Chance of a Lifetime is a British film of genre Drama directed by Bernard Miles with Basil Radford
Chance of a Lifetime (1950)
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Add to a movie listChance of a Lifetime is a 1950 British film starring, produced, part-written and directed by Bernard Miles. It was nominated for the 1951 BAFTA for Best British Film, to which it was beaten by The Blue Lamp.
Synopsis
In the times of austerity after the Second World War a failing factory's owner hands the factory over to the workers to run it for themselves.Actors
Basil Radford
(Dickinson)
Kenneth More
(Adam)
Niall MacGinnis
(Baxter)
Bernard Miles
(Stevens)
Geoffrey Keen
(Bolger)
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