Second Time Lucky

Second Time Lucky
Second Time Lucky
	DVD Cover
Directed by	Michael Anderson
Written by	Ross Dimsey; Howard Grigsby; Alan Byrnes (story); David Sigmund (story)
Produced by	Antony I. Ginnane
Starring	Diane Franklin; Roger Wilson; Robert Morley; Robert Helpmann; John Michael Howson
Cinematography	John R. McLean
Edited by	Tony Paterson
Music by	Garry McDonald; Laurie Stone
Production; companies	Broadbank Investments; Eadenrock Ltd.
Distributed by	Kerridge Odeon (New Zealand) (all media)
Release date	1984;
Running time	101 minutes
Country	New Zealand
Language	English
Budget	$5.5 million

Second Time Lucky is a 1984 New Zealand erotic comedy film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Diane Franklin and Roger Wilson.^[2] The story centres on God and the Devil making a bet on the definitive salvation or condemnation of humanity, as well as the couple that will decide mankind's fate.

Synopsis[edit]

Satan calls God by phone and asks him how is he doing, and if he is not tired of their eternal dispute for mankind's fate. Both decide to set up a definitive game, which will decide if humans deserve one last chance to reach Heaven or if they will be condemned forever to hell. They settle that Eve and Adam, an ordinary 20th Century couple, will be their "players"; travelling through time while fighting (or giving in) to temptation and carnal desire. Adam and Eve are then plunged back through time into a series of tableaus to test them: the Garden of Eden, Ancient Rome, World War I, The Roaring Twenties and current modern times.

Cast[edit]

Diane Franklin as Eve
Roger Wilson as Adam Smith
Jon Gadsby as the Angel Gabriel
Robert Helpmann as the Devil
Robert Morley as God
John Michael Howson as the Devil's Assistant
Bill Ewens as Chuck
Eunice Ewens as Abby
Erna Larsen as Suzy
John Hudson as Jimmy
Gay Dean as Spinster
Brenda Kendall as Dykin
Onno Boelee as Ripperus
Melissa Miles as Sue
Paul Owen-Lowe as Roman guard
Derek Payne as Colonel Anderson
Norman Fairley as German officer
David Weatherley as British officer
Don Kjestrup as Inn-keeper

References[edit]

^ "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, July 1984 p168
^ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p137

Bibliography[edit]

New Zealand Film 1912-1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p102 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) – ISBN 019 558336 1

External links[edit]

Second Time Lucky at IMDb

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[1] "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, July 1984 p168

[2] Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p137

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Source	Genesis creation narrative in the Book of Genesis Adam Eve
Offspring	Cain and Abel Cain Abel Aclima Luluwa Seth Awan Azura Jumella
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Plays	Le Jeu d'Adam (12th century) The Broken Jug (1808) The Tragedy of Man (1861) The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972)
Musicals	The Apple Tree (1966) Dude (1972) Up from Paradise (1973) Children of Eden (1991)
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Songs	"Dese Bones G'wine Rise Again" "Adam-ondi-Ahman" (1835) "Forbidden Fruit" (1915) "The Garden of Eden" (1956) "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968) "Let's Give Adam and Eve Another Chance" (1970) "Man Gave Names to All the Animals" (1979)
Albums	The Cainian Chronicle (1996) Visions of Eden (2006) Snakes for the Divine (2010)
Geography	Adam-ondi-Ahman Tomb of Eve
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Story within a story	Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World Island of Love The Visitors
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