You Lucky People is a 1955 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Maurice Elvey

Maurice Elvey

Maurice Elvey was the most prolific film director in British history. He directed nearly 200 films between 1913 and 1957. During the silent film era he directed as many as twenty films per year....

 and starring Tommy Trinder

Tommy Trinder

Thomas Edward Trinder CBE known as Tommy Trinder, was an English stage, screen and radio comedian of the pre and post war years whose catchphrase was 'You lucky people'.-Life:...

, Mary Parker and Dora Bryan

Dora Bryan

Dora May Bryan OBE is an English actress of stage, film and television.-Early life:Bryan was born as Dora May Broadbent in Southport, Lancashire, England. Her father was a salesman and she attended Hathershaw County Primary School in Oldham, Lancashire...

. It was released in CinemaScope

CinemaScope

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Partial cast

• Tommy Trinder
  Tommy Trinder
  Thomas Edward Trinder CBE known as Tommy Trinder, was an English stage, screen and radio comedian of the pre and post war years whose catchphrase was 'You lucky people'.-Life:...
  
   as Tommy Smart
• Mary Parker as Private Sally Briggs
• Dora Bryan
  Dora Bryan
  Dora May Bryan OBE is an English actress of stage, film and television.-Early life:Bryan was born as Dora May Broadbent in Southport, Lancashire, England. Her father was a salesman and she attended Hathershaw County Primary School in Oldham, Lancashire...
  
   as Sergeant Hortense Tipp
• R.S.M. Brittain
  Ronald Brittain
  Ronald Brittain MBE was well known during his lifetime as an archetypal Regimental Sergeant Major and for having possibly the loudest voice in the British Army. He was often featured in World War II training films and was reported on widely in the newspapers of the day. On retirement from the...
  
   as Himself
• James Copeland
  James Copeland (actor)
  James Copeland was a Scottish actor.His lengthy career included the ship's mate in The Maggie, the guide in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Ogilvie in Operation Kilt, an episode of Dad's Army, and the Scottish customer in Camping In, an episode of Are You Being Served?.James Copeland...
  
   as Private Jim Campbell
• Michael Kelly
  Michael Kelly (actor)
  Michael Kelly was an Irish actor, singer , composer and theatrical manager who made an international career of importance in musical history...
  
   as Sergeant Manners
• Mark Singleton as Leuitenant Arthur Robson
• Charles Rolfe as Hooky
• Rolf Harris
  Rolf Harris
  Rolf Harris, CBE, AM is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, painter and television personality.Born in Perth, Western Australia, Harris was a champion swimmer before studying art. He moved to England in 1952, where he started to appear on television programmes on which he drew the...
  
   as Private Proudfoot
• Rufus Cruikshank as Sergeant Major Horace Thickpenny
• Michael Trubshawe
  Michael Trubshawe
  Michael Trubshawe was a British actor and former officer in the Highland Regiment of the British Army. Trubshawe was very close friends with the famous British actor David Niven, serving as best man for both Niven's weddings, and is constantly referred to in Niven's memoirs The Moon's a Balloon,...
  
   as Lieutenant Colonel Barkstone-Gadsby
• Harold Goodwin
  Harold Goodwin (English actor)
  Harold Goodwin was an English actor born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England.Goodwin trained at RADA and was a stage actor at Liverpool repertory theatre for 3 years...
  
  as Private Rossiter

ALSO: A phrase commonly used by black people to describe white people who have authority and get to stand around in a huddle with other white people while all the blacks do the work! YOU LUCKY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! Catch them rolls up!!!