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A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money

1949•1h 25m•6.0/10
Comedy

Ratings

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6.0/10(18)

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!

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Production

Ealing Studios, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Donald Houston

Donald Houston

David "Dai Number 9" Jones

Meredith Edwards

Meredith Edwards

Thomas 'Twm' Jones

Moira Lister

Moira Lister

Jo

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

Whimple

Hugh Griffith

Hugh Griffith

Huw Price

Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Grenfell

Mrs Pargiter

Clive Morton

Clive Morton

Editor

Leslie Perrins

Leslie Perrins

Burney

Edward Rigby

Edward Rigby

Beefeater

Mackenzie Ward

Mackenzie Ward

Photographer

Julie Milton

Bronwen

Peter Edwards

Davies Manager

Dorothy Bramhall

Jane

Andrew Leigh

Pawnbroker

Desmond Walter-Ellis

Desmond Walter-Ellis

Station Announcer

Meadows White

Guv'nor

Gabrielle Brune

Gabrielle Brune

The Crooner

Ronnie Harries

Dan

Dudley Jones

Bleddyn

Diana Hope

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