A Run for Your Money
- Original title
- A Run for Your Money
- Year
- 1949
- Running time
- 85 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Donald Houston
- Meredith Edwards
- Moira Lister
- Alec Guinness
- Hugh Griffith
- Clive Morton
- Julie Milton
- Peter Edwards
- Joyce Grenfell
- Leslie Perrins
- Andrew Leigh
- Edward Rigby
- Desmond Walter-Ellis
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- Music
- Cinematography
Douglas Slocombe (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Comedy | Journalism. Sports. Rugby
- Synopsis
- Comedy in which a pair of Welsh miners, Twm and Dai Jones, win a competition and take a trip to London to see the England-Wales Rugby match but miss their reception committee and get separated. One gets taken in by Alec Guinness's effeminate garden-column writer, the other meets up with an old friend (Hugh Griffith), whereupon they proceed to get wildly drunk. Joyce Grenfell makes an appearance as a certain Mrs Pargiter.
- Awards
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1949: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best British Film
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