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A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money1949

★6.285 minComedy

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!

Director

Writer

Leslie Norman Charles Frend Richard Hughes

Score

Stars

Donald Houston Meredith Edwards Moira Lister

Cast25

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
Clive Morton
as Editor
Leslie Perrins
as Burney
Edward Rigby
as Beefeater
Mackenzie Ward
as Photographer
J
Julie Milton
as Bronwen
P
Peter Edwards
as Davies Manager
D
Dorothy Bramhall
as Jane
A
Andrew Leigh
as Pawnbroker
Desmond Walter-Ellis
as Station Announcer
Meadows White
as Guv'nor
Gabrielle Brune
as The Crooner
R
Ronnie Harries
as Dan
D
Dudley Jones
as Bleddyn
D
Diana Hope
as A Customer
David Davies
as The Burly Stranger
T
Tom Jones
as Elderly Miner
R
Richard Littledale
as Cinema Manager
Richard Davies
as Rugby Fan (uncredited)
Patric Doonan
as Conductor (uncredited)

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