A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money

85 mins | Comedy | Nov. 23, 1949

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!

A Run for Your Money

85 mins | Comedy | Nov. 23, 1949

A Run for Your Money
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!
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Ealing Studios
Original title A Run for Your Money
Directors Norman Priggen, Charles Frend
Writers Richard Hughes, Clifford Evans, Leslie Norman, Charles Frend

Cast

Donald Houston

as David "Dai Number 9" Jones

Meredith Edwards

as Thomas 'Twm' Jones

Moira Lister

as Jo

Alec Guinness

as Whimple

Hugh Griffith

as Huw Price

Joyce Grenfell

as Mrs Pargiter