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For his 1957 movie Just My Luck Norman Wisdom took a gamble on a racing track caper and romped home with another box-office winner. As in his first starring role, Norman is back working in a shop. But where in Trouble in Store (1953) he aspired to become a window-dresser, this time he works in a jewellers and has romantic intentions towards a window dresser, played by Jill Dixon (who had also starred in Wisdom's previous hit, Up in the World (1956)). Deciding it would be easier to win the money to buy her a diamond pendant than work for it all, Norman invests his "hard earned" on the horses at the Goodwood races. The farce that ensues is typically Wisdom, here playing both his usual loveable, accident-prone underdog and his own father. He is given sterling support by distinguished comic actors Margaret Rutherford, Leslie Phillips and a young Joan Sims, just a year short of joining the Carry On team in Carry on Nurse (1958). Odd film fact: Sims was also in 1957's Carry on Admiral, a British comedy with nothing to do with the Carry On series. Norman himself returned playing another duel role in The Square Peg (1958).