| Just Joe | |
| Director: | Maclean Rogers |
| Producer: | Roger Proudlock |
| Screenplay: | Raymond Drewe |
| Based On: | an original story by Donald Bull |
| Starring: | Leslie Randall Joan Reynolds Michael Shepley Anna May Wong |
| Cinematography: | Geoffrey Faithfull |
| Editing: | Peter Austen-Hunt |
| Studio: | Roger Proudlock Productions (as Parkside Productions) |
| Distributor: | Archway Film Distributors Ltd. |
| Runtime: | 73 minutes[1] |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
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.
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]