This page is about the novel. For the film see Just William's Luck (film)

Just William's Luck (film)

Just William's Luck is a 1947 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring William Graham, Garry Marsh and Jane Welsh. The film was based on the Just William series of books by Richmal Crompton. Crompton was impressed with the film and wrote a novel Just William's Luck based on the events...

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Just William's Luck (1948) was a novel in the Just William series

Just William series

The William Brown series, better known as the Just William series, is a series of thirty nine books written by English author Richmal Crompton...

 by Richmal Crompton

Richmal Crompton

Richmal Crompton Lamburn was a British writer, most famous for her Just William humorous short stories and books.-Life:...

. It was the only novel in the series, the rest being books of short stories. The story revolves around the attempts of William and his friends to get their elder brothers married, such that they might become the recipients of possessions replaced by wedding presents. After a series of unlikely adventures, the boys serendipitously foil a gang of fur-coat smugglers, and receive a reward from the police.

After the release of a film feature film of the same name

Just William's Luck (film)

Just William's Luck is a 1947 British comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring William Graham, Garry Marsh and Jane Welsh. The film was based on the Just William series of books by Richmal Crompton. Crompton was impressed with the film and wrote a novel Just William's Luck based on the events...

, loosely based on the books, Crompton was so impressed with the film that he chose to turn it into a novel.