A Run for Your Money

6.0
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 85 min
  • Premiere: 1949. November 23.

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!

Discover

Donald Houston

David "Dai Number 9" Jones

Meredith Edwards

Thomas 'Twm' Jones

Hugh Griffith

Huw Price

Joyce Grenfell

Mrs Pargiter

Edward Rigby

Beefeater

Mackenzie Ward

Photographer

Julie Milton

Bronwen

Peter Edwards

Davies Manager

Andrew Leigh

Pawnbroker

Desmond Walter-Ellis

Station Announcer

Gabrielle Brune

The Crooner

Dudley Jones

Bleddyn

Diana Hope

A Customer

David Davies

The Burly Stranger

Tom Jones

Elderly Miner

Richard Littledale

Cinema Manager

Richard Davies

Rugby Fan (uncredited)

Patric Doonan

Conductor (uncredited)

Art

William Kellner

Art Direction

Camera

Douglas Slocombe

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Anthony Mendleson

Costume Design

Directing

Charles Frend

Director

Norman Priggen

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Michael Balcon

Producer

Sound

Ernest Irving

Original Music Composer

Writing

Leslie Norman

Screenplay

Charles Frend

Screenplay

Richard Hughes

Screenplay

Clifford Evans

Screenstory

Art

William Kellner

Art Direction

Camera

Douglas Slocombe

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Anthony Mendleson

Costume Design

Directing

Charles Frend

Director

Norman Priggen

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Michael Balcon

Producer

Sound

Ernest Irving

Original Music Composer

Writing

Leslie Norman

Screenplay

Charles Frend

Screenplay

Richard Hughes

Screenplay

Clifford Evans

Screenstory