Second Time Lucky is a 1984 New Zealand erotic comedy film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Diane Franklin and Roger Wilson. 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.
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
Diane Franklin as Eve
Roger Wilson as Adam
Jon Gadsby as the Angel Gabriel
Robert Helpmann as the Devil
Robert Morley as God
John Michael Howson as the Devil's Assistant
Bill Ewens as Chuck
Eunice Ewens as Abby
Erna Larsen as Suzy
John Hudson as Jimmy
Gay Dean as Spinster
Brenda Kendall as Dykin
Onno Boelee as Ripperus
Melissa Miles as Sue
Paul Owen-Lowe as Roman guard
Derek Payne as Colonel Anderson
Norman Fairley as German officer
David Weatherley as British officer
Don Kjestrup as Inn-keeper
References
Bibliography
New Zealand Film 1912-1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p102 (1997, Oxford University Press, Auckland) –