A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money (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!

Date of release
1949-11-23
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Charles Frend

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: £141.2K

A Run for Your Money is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Charles Frend and starring Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as two Welshmen visiting London for the first time. The supporting cast includes Alec Guinness, Moira Lister and Hugh Griffith. It was written by Richard Hughes, Leslie Norman and Frend based on a story by Clifford Evans, and made at Ealing Studios.

Production

All the music in this film is based on traditional Welsh songs.

Much of it was filmed on location in London. Nant-y-Moel was used for scenes of the Welsh village's railway station. There are a number of joking references to the deprivations and regulations of postwar England.

Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch: Hafod uwchben ceubwll y marchog coch translates roughly as 'Shed over the cess-pit of the red knight'.

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