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When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever. ...Fate Takes a Hand
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"Fate Takes a Hand" 1962, the story is written by famous television writer Brian Clemens (The Avengers & The Professionals) and directed by B picture expert Max Varnel and this lifts the pace and style of production nicely. The film stars Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard) and Christina Gregg an actress whose presence on film mainly in the early 1960s was all too short. A whole host of character actors also appear in this Danziger production. The story of letters being found and delivered 15 years later is quite clever and the circumstances very different in each case. The picture and sound quality are fine. A Pegasus budget DVD.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
When a missing mail bag stolen 15 years before is discovered, a post office worker and a reporter start to deliver the letters to the addresses.
An office employee working under a tyrannical boss is one of the recipients, also a woman blinded in the war, an husband who's wife puts him in a compromising position to obtain a better divorce settlement, a man who helps a kidnapped little girl to escape, and a washed-up boxer (Peter Butterworth) who receives some unexpected good news.
Heading the cast as the two letter deliverers are Ronald Howard and Christina Gregg, with a few familiar faces along the way, not the best film you will ever see, but still a pleasant distraction, and at around 70 minutes long, the film moves along nicely, not a bad little portmanteau movie at all.
Picture and sound quality are surprisingly good for a Pegasus release.
The extras are a brief biography of the producers of the film, the Danziger Brothers, with a list of their film productions, also a slide show from the film, and a simple advert for this and two other films.
An office employee working under a tyrannical boss is one of the recipients, also a woman blinded in the war, an husband who's wife puts him in a compromising position to obtain a better divorce settlement, a man who helps a kidnapped little girl to escape, and a washed-up boxer (Peter Butterworth) who receives some unexpected good news.
Heading the cast as the two letter deliverers are Ronald Howard and Christina Gregg, with a few familiar faces along the way, not the best film you will ever see, but still a pleasant distraction, and at around 70 minutes long, the film moves along nicely, not a bad little portmanteau movie at all.
Picture and sound quality are surprisingly good for a Pegasus release.
The extras are a brief biography of the producers of the film, the Danziger Brothers, with a list of their film productions, also a slide show from the film, and a simple advert for this and two other films.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The idea behind this portmanteau film is a good one. The Police find five undelivered letters in a long-lost Royal Mail sack and deliver them one by one. A journalist accompanies the policeman as she thinks it will make a good story. We learn the stories behind the recipients' lives and what might have happened had they received the letters when they were intended to.
The only problem is the direction is very flat and the stories are unconvincingly portrayed. The worst example is the businessman Wheeler (Basil Dignam) who is being set up by his gold-digging wife to engineer a divorce. Just at that point the policeman and journalist turn up to deliver the letter. It turns out to be from the War Office informing Wheeler that the date of death of his first wife (who went missing during the War) was a clerical error, she died later than they thought, in fact it was after the marriage to his current wife. Thus it turns out that he is not legally married to his curent wife and she will not receive a divorce settlement. All well and good except this is all caried out on a single set in the space of about 7 minutes with characters entering the scene, making declarations, and then exiting like it was a comic farce, but it is all done in deadly earnest.
The screenplay may have been written by Avengers creator Brian Clements but this dire effort shows he had not yet found the right director and producer to show his work to its best advantage.
But a low budget film dererves low budget marketing and the manufacturers of this DVD (Pegasus or TKO - they love yelling us who they are) are masters of the grubby amateur/budget market. They have also included previews of other films in their range and these must rank as the most boring and uninformative previews ever seen. All they did was persuade me that the other titles are not worth buying.
Do yourself a favour, avoid this badly presented feeble production and others in the Pegasus/TKO range like the plague. Let your common sense take a hand.
The only problem is the direction is very flat and the stories are unconvincingly portrayed. The worst example is the businessman Wheeler (Basil Dignam) who is being set up by his gold-digging wife to engineer a divorce. Just at that point the policeman and journalist turn up to deliver the letter. It turns out to be from the War Office informing Wheeler that the date of death of his first wife (who went missing during the War) was a clerical error, she died later than they thought, in fact it was after the marriage to his current wife. Thus it turns out that he is not legally married to his curent wife and she will not receive a divorce settlement. All well and good except this is all caried out on a single set in the space of about 7 minutes with characters entering the scene, making declarations, and then exiting like it was a comic farce, but it is all done in deadly earnest.
The screenplay may have been written by Avengers creator Brian Clements but this dire effort shows he had not yet found the right director and producer to show his work to its best advantage.
But a low budget film dererves low budget marketing and the manufacturers of this DVD (Pegasus or TKO - they love yelling us who they are) are masters of the grubby amateur/budget market. They have also included previews of other films in their range and these must rank as the most boring and uninformative previews ever seen. All they did was persuade me that the other titles are not worth buying.
Do yourself a favour, avoid this badly presented feeble production and others in the Pegasus/TKO range like the plague. Let your common sense take a hand.
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