To me, this movie is perfection.

Let's be realistic.

Just perfect...

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The British comedy is something, for my taste, isn't existent. Only Norman Wisdom's movies that give me a chance to change my mind ! Wisdom was brilliant. As if a mix of talking Charles Chaplin and British Jerry Lewis. Sometimes he has a miserable lonely soul, and most of the time a loose sense of childhood. The way he used to smile in sadness was exceptional.I'm familiar with most of his comedies. And according to them; this movie from 1953, his first as a lead, is their best. For the next 15 years he'd make what's lower and lower than that. For instance try to avoid one of his last movies (Press for Time – 1966); it's totally the opposite quality !In (Trouble..) the formula achieves itself worthily and perfectly : a kind idiot as a lead + a systematic environment that goes crazy because of his idiocy + a light touch of sexuality + a love story between the lead and a girl as good as him. Hmmm, how many comic movies, old and recent, British or else, used that ?! Anyway, be sure and secure, it's well done here. Utilizing the TV shows as a background for the end's chase sequence was smart. It made the climax so comic, so dazzling despite the passing of 50 years, and the fact that this is a British movie ! However, still the best scene at all is the party of the rich people. What a moment when Norman joins it, thinking it a party of poor servants. The punch line of that scene is invaluable !This is rare, for its time, place, and – sorrowfully – lead actor. Watch the rest of Wisdom's movies to see how the blaze faded away gradually.

It's often said you have to be English to understand Norman Wisdom's humour – Albanians would probably agree, the same as Russians would've done about George Formby. The fact is he's always appealed to certain parts of the population, usually kids or people with defiantly unsophisticated humour like me. In his films I cringe at the obligatory mawkish bad bits but overall have always got more out than I put in, apart from his last.This was his first big effort: he plays lowly Norman in the stockroom at a big department store under the control of new broom Jerry Desmonde and intent on winning the love of the girl on the record counter. There's various adventures along the way, many firings and re-hirings and a tiny sub-plot involving a gang of what turned out to be extremely cartoony robbers, but basically it's a one man show. However if you already know that Norman isn't your bag, try this one solely for the beautiful performances by the ever frothing Desmonde up against Wisdom for the first time, and regal Margaret Rutherford as an expert shoplifter in a fantastic feathered hat. Favourite bits: the smashing window dressing scene; Norman's first explosive encounter with Desmonde; the climactic violent gunfight in front of an audience. Norman's most famous song is here too: Don't Laugh At Me 'Cause I'm A Fool; in 2008 UK BBC broadcast an otherwise interesting programme on him at 92 years old with Alzheimer's disease setting in with that precise aim in mind. I do hope no one takes the mickey out of those particular sensitive documentary makers if they ever get old and in the way too.Recommended as I've always liked Norman's films - to a point - but then again maybe my funny bone froze at age 11.

Well too start i remember wanting to get this film taped years ago off the BBC, since i watched bits of the other ones we had on VHS (A Stitch In Time, The Bulldog Breed, The Square Peg, On The Beat),i've watched the film more recently so i have a clearer image of it.The film starts off with Norman on his bike, on his way to the superstore where he works, falling of his bike and causing all sorts of commotion, in the store where Norman works, there is a plot of buglers (obviously) plotting to burgle the store (they do even in front of Normans eyes!!!) but he and his girlfriend (who he sings too, my least favourite part of the movie) find out about the plot and stop it, leaving Norman with the job he wanted so much, to be a window dresser!and now to my main question, did it deserve a BAFTA?.... well definitely yes for best newcomer, i enjoyed this movie but as my dad said "it's not as good as the ones we have on video" and well i agree, so overall i think it did deserve a BAFTA for it's category....so overall i enjoyed this film , like all of Normans films i've seen....

Norman Wisdom's brand of comedy is an acquired taste; for those unfamiliar with his particular shtick, he's basically the British counterpart to Jerry Lewis - with all that it entails! I had watched a few of his films over the years but it'd been some time since then, so I decided to rent a 12-DVD Box Set (on Region 2) available from my local outlet - which, actually, I did mainly for my father's sake who used to lap his films up...and is already halfway into the collection as I write this! Anyway, his debut feature is pleasant enough and is actually considered by many to be his best vehicle (though still featuring a couple of sentimental songs). In itself, simple-minded but occasionally inventive (particularly the window-dressing 'competition', the "sale day" rush and the climactic rounding-up of the bad guys) and with a premise that's seen service in countless 'comedian' films - Charlie Chaplin's short THE FLOORWALKER (1917) and again later in MODERN TIMES (1936), Harold Lloyd's SAFETY LAST (1923), The Marx Bros.' THE BIG STORE (1941) and Jerry Lewis himself in WHO'S MINDING THE STORE? (1963). Here the star is nicely abetted by Jerry Desmonde as his flustered boss (often serving as the brunt of Wisdom's accident-prone gags) and Margaret Rutherford as a charming elderly shoplifter.