“Like Carol Reed's Penny Paradise and many other Capra-ish British comedies, (this one) deals with a sudden win in the football pools, and the problems of a working class family encountering luxury-level money. It would be a pleasant time-killer for British audiences and not much more were it not for the radiant presence of Wendy Hiller, a stage player since 1922 and here, at the age of 25, making her film debut...with so much presence and authority (not to say talent) that it's not surprising that the following year she went right into the starring role in Pygmalion.... One can't say that she is exactly a ‘method' actress here. In the first scene, George Carney, playing her Lancashire father, wanders in to enquire, ‘Ee, what's to do? Summat up?', and daughter Hiller responds with an answer that suggests she has already been the beneficiary of Professor Higgins' elocution lessons!.... The original story, presumably written with her in mind, was by Ronald Gow, Hiller's husband.... Lancashire Luck is minor and typically class-conscious in its plotting, but academically quite valuable and