Just Joe

This article is about the film. For the professional wrestler who used the name "Just Joe", see Joe E. Legend. For the autobiography, see Joe Duffy.

Just Joe is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers, and starring Leslie Randall, Joan Reynolds, Michael Shepley, and Anna May Wong.^[2][3] The screenplay was by Raymond Drewe based on a story by Donald Bull. The unassuming Joe discovers his heroic side when he becomes involved with spies chasing the secret formula of a new detergent.

Just Joe
Original British Front of House still
Directed by	Maclean Rogers
Screenplay by	Raymond Drewe
Based on	an original story by Donald Bull
Produced by	Roger Proudlock
Starring	Leslie Randall Joan Reynolds Michael Shepley Anna May Wong
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Edited by	Peter Austen-Hunt
Production company	Roger Proudlock Productions (as Parkside Productions)
Distributed by	Archway Film Distributors Ltd. (UK)
Release date	July 1960 (1960-07) (UK)
Running time	73 minutes[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

Cast

• Leslie Randall as Joe
• Joan Reynolds as Sybil
• Michael Shepley as Fowler
• Anna May Wong as Peach Blossom
• Jon Pertwee as Prendergast
• Howard Pays as Rodney
• Martin Wyldeck as Bill
• Noel Dyson as Myra
• Bruce Seton as Charlie
• David Sale as Carruthers
• Betty Huntley-Wright as Miss Appleby

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite simple and hard-working performances by Joan Reynolds and Leslie Randall, this film remains another lamentable example of the general ineptness of second-feature domestic comedy. The story is soap-opera, the pace slack and the direction lifeless. Michael Shepley and Jon Pertwee overplay their respective roles of peppery employer and zany research chemist in a desperate attempt to win a few laughs. A fight in a detergent laboratory provides a routine slapstick climax."^[4]