Taglines: Guns, Girls and Governments… He plays with them all!
That Lucky Touch movie storyline. The generals are gathering for the NATO War Games in Belgium, so are the journalists and the salesmen. One of the first films to satirise NATO and the European Union in Brussels begins when a cynical arms dealer discovers he lives next door to an attractive pacifist from the ‘Washington Post’, whose best friend happens to be married to an American General.
That Lucky Touch is a 1975 British-West German comedy film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Roger Moore, Susannah York and Shelley Winters. 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.
This contemporary light comedy of love-against-the-odds, which evokes the Hollywood genre of the 1930s, falls short of its target. The film aims to extract some classy fun from the entanglements of an arms dealer (Roger Moore) and a leftist women’s libber (Susannah York), covering NATO war games for the Washington Post.
Moore just about copes as the assertive, high-living gun merchant, but where moments of finesse are called for he is merely game and/or workmanlike. York makes the best of her chances as the aggressive, sex-shunning pacifist.
That Lucky Touch (1975)
Directed by: Christopher Miles
Starring: Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, Lee J. Cobb, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Raf Vallone, Sydne Rome, Donald Sinden, Michael Shannon, Aubrey Woods, Alfred Hoffman, Julie Dawn Cole
Screenplay by: Moss Hart, John Briley, Monja Danischewsky
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: Douglas Slocombe
Film Editing by: Tom Priestley
Costume Design by: Anthony Powell
Set Decoration by: Harry Cordwell
Art Direction by: Jack Maxsted
Music by: John Scott
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Fox-Rank, Allied Artists (US)
Release Date: August 7, 1975
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