Isn't Life Wonderful!

This article is about the 1953 UK film. For the 1926 US film, see Isn't Life Wonderful. For other uses, see Isn't Life Wonderful (disambiguation).

Isn't Life Wonderful!
Directed byHarold French
Screenplay byBrock Williams
Based onUncle Willie and the Bicycle Shop by Brock Williams[1]
Produced byWarwick Ward
StarringCecil Parker
Eileen Herlie
Donald Wolfit
Peter Asher
CinematographyErwin Hillier
Edited byEdward B. Jarvis
Music byPhilip Green
Production
company
Distributed byAssociated British-Pathé
Release date
  • 16 November 1953 (1953-11-16)
Running time
81 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£97,710[3]

Isn't Life Wonderful! is a 1953 British technicolor period comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie and Donald Wolfit.[4] The film was shot at the Elstree Studios of Associated British with sets designed by the art director Terence Verity. It was released in the United States as Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop, the title of Brock Williams original 1948 novel based on his boyhood experiences.[5]

  1. ^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL - British Board of Film Classification". www.bbfc.co.uk.
  3. ^ Vincent Porter, 'The Robert Clark Account', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 20 No 4, 2000 p502
  4. ^ "Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953)". Archived from the original on 28 August 2016.
  5. ^ "UNCLE WILLIE AND THE BICYCLE SHOP, by Brock Williams— George G. Harrap and Co, LTD., London". Sydney Morning Herald. 9 April 1949.