A Run for Your Money (1949)

6.2/10 85 min Comedy

Overview

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!

Cast

Donald Houston

David "Dai Number 9" Jones

Meredith Edwards

Thomas 'Twm' Jones

Moira Lister

Jo

Alec Guinness

Whimple

Hugh Griffith

Huw Price

Joyce Grenfell

Mrs Pargiter

Clive Morton

Editor

Leslie Perrins

Burney

Edward Rigby

Beefeater

Mackenzie Ward

Photographer

Desmond Walter-Ellis

Station Announcer

Gabrielle Brune

The Crooner

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