Penny Paradise (1938)
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
- Data di uscita
- 1938-09-23
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (12)
- Durata
- 1 h 12 min
- Generi
- Commedia
- Regista
- Carol Reed
Cast
- Edmund Gwenn — Joe Higgins
- Betty Driver — Betty Higgins
- Jimmy O'Dea — Pat
- Ethel Coleridge — Aunt Agnes
- Maire O'Neill — Widow Clegg
- Jack Livesey — Bert
- Syd Crossley — Uncle Lancelot
- James Harcourt — Amos Cook
- Frederick Burtwell — Policeman
- Lloyd Pearson — Alf - Publican
- Billy Russell — Minor Role
Curiosità
Penny Paradise is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver and Jimmy O'Dea.
Production
The film was made at Associated Talking Pictures Studios in Ealing. It was an early directorial assignment for Reed, and along with many other British productions of the era, such as the same year's Reed-directed Bank Holiday (1938), has been described as "belonging to a wider studio tradition of modest representation of ordinary British life."
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