Touch and Go is a Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

 British film comedy, directed by Michael Truman

Michael Truman

Michael Truman was a British film producer, director and editor.Educated at London University, he worked for Ealing Studios editing such films as It Always Rains on Sunday and Passport to Pimlico and latterly as producer of films like The Titfield Thunderbolt...

 and released by Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios

Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in West London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever since...

 in 1955

1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released....

. The film was indifferently received on release and is not generally included in the canon of classic Ealing Comedies

Ealing Comedies

For the film Ealing Comedy, see Ealing Comedy .The Ealing Comedies were a series of film comedies produced by Ealing Studios during the period 1947 to 1957....

. It did however pick up two nominations at the 1956 British Academy Film Awards

9th British Academy Film Awards

The 9th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1956, honoured the best films of 1955.-Best Film: Richard III *Bad Day at Black Rock*Carmen Jones*The Colditz Story*The Dam Busters...

; Margaret Johnston

Margaret Johnston

Margaret Johnston was an Australian-born British actress. Johnston was most widely admired for her stage performances, but also appeared in 12 films and a handful of TV productions before retiring from acting in 1968 to devote herself to running a theatrical agency.-Early life:Johnston was the...

 for Best British Actress and William Rose

William Rose (screenwriter)

William Rose was an American screenwriter of British and Hollywood films.Although born in Jefferson City, Missouri, after the 1939 outbreak of World War II, Rose lived in Canada and volunteered to fight overseas with the Black Watch...

 for Best British Screenplay – Rose did win that year's screenplay award but for another Ealing film, The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy film made by Ealing Studios. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, it stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner and Katie Johnson...

.

Plot

Following an argument with a work superior, furniture designer Jim Fletcher quits his job in a fit of pique. He decides that England has nothing to offer him and the future for his family is in Australia. He eagerly sets about making emigration plans, and despite the fact that his wife and family are less than enthusiastic about moving to the other side of the world, he disregards their reservations and presses ahead. Practical and bureaucratic hitches continually threaten to derail the project. Jim must also deal with the opposition of his in-laws, finds himself missing his job, and starts to have doubts himself about the wisdom of the move. However the snags and pitfalls are finally sorted out and a firm departure date is set. Then two days before they are due to leave, the Fletchers' daughter meets, and instantly falls in love with, her ideal man. A good deal of heart-searching ensues before the Fletchers decide whether or not to go ahead with emigration.

Cast

• Jack Hawkins
  Jack Hawkins
  Colonel John Edward "Jack" Hawkins CBE was an English actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.-Career:Hawkins was born at Lyndhurst Road, Wood Green, Middlesex, the son of master builder Thomas George Hawkins and his wife, Phoebe née Goodman. The youngest of four children in a close-knit family,...
  
   as Jim Fletcher
• Margaret Johnston
  Margaret Johnston
  Margaret Johnston was an Australian-born British actress. Johnston was most widely admired for her stage performances, but also appeared in 12 films and a handful of TV productions before retiring from acting in 1968 to devote herself to running a theatrical agency.-Early life:Johnston was the...
  
   as Helen Fletcher
• June Thorburn
  June Thorburn
  June Thorburn was a popular English actress whose career was cut short by her death in an air crash.-Early life:Thorburn was born in Karachi when the city was still in a non-independent India...
  
   as Peggy Fletcher
• John Fraser
  John Fraser (actor)
  -External links:* http://www.johnfraser.org/...
  
   as Richard Kenyon
• Ronald Culver as Reg Fairbright
• Alison Leggatt
  Alison Leggatt
  Alison Leggatt was an English character actress.-Career:Born as Alison Joy Leggatt in the Kensington district of London, Leggatt spent the early part of her career primarily on the stage. Her first major film credit was as Aunt Sylvia in This Happy Breed , Noel Coward's homage to the British...
  
   as Alice Fairbright
• James Hayter as Kimball
• Basil Dignam
  Basil Dignam
  Basil Dignam was an English character actor.Basil Dignam, a native of Sheffield, acted on film and television between 1951 and 1975. He often appeared as an authority figure, such as a police officer, army general or peer....
  
   as Stevens
• Bessie Love
  Bessie Love
  Bessie Love was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies. With a small frame and delicate features, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies. Her role in The Broadway Melody earned her a nomination for...
  
  as Mrs. Baxter
• Henry B. Longhurst as Mr. Pritchett
• Margaret Halstan as Mrs. Pritchett