Second Time Lucky
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Directed by | Michael Anderson |
Written by | Ross Dimsey Howard Grigsby Alan Byrnes (story) David Sigmund (story) |
Produced by | Antony I. Ginnane |
Starring | Diane Franklin Roger Wilson Robert Morley Robert Helpmann John Michael Howson |
Cinematography | |
Edited by | Tony Paterson |
Music by | Garry McDonald Laurie Stone |
Production companies | Broadbank Investments Eadenrock Ltd. |
Distributed by | Kerridge Odeon (New Zealand) (all media) |
Release date | 1984 |
Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | New Zealand |
Language | English |
Budget | $5.5 million[1] |
Second Time Lucky is a 1984 New Zealand erotic comedy film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Diane Franklin and Roger Wilson.[2] The story centres on God and the Devil making a bet on the definitive salvation or condemnation of humanity, as well as the couple that will decide mankind's fate.
Synopsis[]
Satan calls God by phone and asks him how is he doing, and if he is not tired of their eternal dispute for mankind's fate. Both decide to set up a definitive game, which will decide if humans deserve one last chance to reach Heaven or if they will be condemned forever to hell. They settle that Eve and Adam, an ordinary 20th Century couple, will be their "players"; travelling through time while fighting (or giving in) to temptation and carnal desire. Adam and Eve are then plunged back through time into a series of tableaus to test them: the Garden of Eden, Ancient Rome, World War I, The Roaring Twenties and current modern times.
Cast[]
- Diane Franklin as Eve
- Roger Wilson as Adam
- Jon Gadsby as the Angel Gabriel
- Robert Helpmann as the Devil
- Robert Morley as God
- John Michael Howson as the Devil's Assistant
- as Chuck
- as Abby
- as Suzy
- John Hudson as Jimmy
- as Spinster
- as Dykin
- Onno Boelee as Ripperus
- as Sue
- as Roman guard
- Derek Payne as Colonel Anderson
- as German officer
- David Weatherley as British officer
- as Inn-keeper
References[]
Bibliography[]
- New Zealand Film 1912-1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p102 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) - ISBN 019 558336 1
External links[]
- English-language films
- 1984 films
- 1980s English-language films
- New Zealand films
- 1980s erotic films
- 1980s sex comedy films
- New Zealand independent films
- Films directed by Michael Anderson
- New Zealand comedy films
- Cultural depictions of Adam and Eve
- The Devil in fiction
- God in fiction
- 1984 comedy films
- Erotic comedy film stubs
- New Zealand film stubs