Second Time Lucky

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.

Second Time Lucky
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Directed byMichael Anderson
Produced byAntony I. Ginnane
Written byRoss Dimsey
Howard Grigsby
Alan Byrnes (story)
David Sigmund (story)
StarringDiane Franklin
Roger Wilson
Robert Morley
Robert Helpmann
John Michael Howson
Music byGarry McDonald
Laurie Stone
CinematographyJohn R. McLean
Edited byTony Paterson
Production
company
Broadbank Investments
Eadenrock Ltd.
Distributed byKerridge Odeon (New Zealand) (all media)
Release date
1984
Running time
101 minutes
CountryNew Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5.5 million[1]

Synopsis

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

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

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


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