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WORK ID: YFA 7296 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
YOU JUST CAN'T WIN | 1964 | 1964-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 16 mins 40 secs Credits: Ronald Padgett, Broken Edge Productions Genre: Comedy Subject: Women Family Life |
Summary A comedy produced by Ronald Padgett about a wife who after seeing her husband being flirtatious with another woman at a party tries to rekindle his passion for her by holding a party of her own where she can show-off a new sexy dress she has made. The rouse initially works as he is now attracted to her as he was with the other woman, but it all falls apart when he realises, he had forgotten to post out the invitations and so no-one was coming. The film ends with couple arguing with him leaving and her beginning to cry. |
Description
A comedy produced by Ronald Padgett about a wife who after seeing her husband being flirtatious with another woman at a party tries to rekindle his passion for her by holding a party of her own where she can show-off a new sexy dress she has made. The rouse initially works as he is now attracted to her as he was with the other woman, but it all falls apart when he realises, he had forgotten to post out the invitations and so no-one was coming. The film ends with couple arguing with him...
A comedy produced by Ronald Padgett about a wife who after seeing her husband being flirtatious with another woman at a party tries to rekindle his passion for her by holding a party of her own where she can show-off a new sexy dress she has made. The rouse initially works as he is now attracted to her as he was with the other woman, but it all falls apart when he realises, he had forgotten to post out the invitations and so no-one was coming. The film ends with couple arguing with him leaving and her beginning to cry.
Title: You Just Can’t Win
Credit: A Broken Edge production
A woman greets as they arrive at her party, they shake hands as the husband takes away their coats to be hung up. In a living room the husband and wife meet another couple, they shake hands and chat happily together. Drinks are offered to the new guest; they raise a toast. Around the room other party guest sit or stand chatting over drinks. Everyone begins to dance.
In another room the husband stands with his beer looking bored. His interest is peaked when another woman in a sleek blue dress enters the room. She comes over and begins flirting with him. He lights a cigarette for her.
Back in the other room the wife stops dancing, leaves and on seeing her husband flirting with another woman tries to attract his attention by holding out her cigarette to be lit. He continues to ignore her as he continues to chat with the woman but holds out his lighter so that she can light it herself. Naturally, she becomes frustrated and drags her husband out of the room saying goodnight to their hosts as they leave.
Title: Later…
The couple stand in their kitchen, the husband daydreaming of the woman he met at the party. She remembers the woman as well, but differently.
Title: Next day
The couple sit at the breakfast table, she is eating while her husband hides behind a newspaper. He passes a teacup; she dutifully fills it for him. He lowers the newspaper and after a brief daydream of the woman the previous night gets up in a rush and leaves the house forgetting to kiss his wife.
She returns to the breakfast table and contemplates her situation. Picking up a pad and pencil from the sideboard she returns to the table and begins to design a dress for herself. A montage follows of her sewing and making a red dress.
He husband returns home, and she is there to greet him. In the living room he collapses into a chair beside a roaring fire exhausted and she pours him a drink.
Title: Later…
The wife comes back into the living room where her husband is sitting and shows him a book entitled ‘Let’s Have a Party’. The two of them work together on invitations, he places the envelope into his pocket to post.
Title: A Few Days Later…
The couple put out drinks and classes in the living room, he takes a seat with a drink as she heads upstairs to change. The clock on the mantlepiece reads 8pm and the wife returns in her new red dress. Her husband jumps to his feet in surprise and begins flirting with her the same way he did with the woman at the other party, she is pleased. He makes her a drink and they continue to chat.
The clock on the mantlepiece reads 8.30pm and the husband goes to the curtains to look outside for his guests. He puts on his jacket and finds in its pocket the invitations he had forgot to post. They begin to argue and as he throws the envelopes in the air in frustration. The film ends with the wife beginning to cry.
End credit: The end
Context
About Ron Padgett (1923-2001)
Ron Padgett was born in Birkenshaw, Yorkshire, but spent his entire married life living in Leeds. He became a keen cinematographer in the late 1950s and was an active member of the Leeds Cine Club throughout the 1960s – winning competitions for his 8mm films.
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