23 September 1938 Comedy 72 mins
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.
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Edmund Gwenn as Joe Higgins
Betty Driver as Betty Higgins
Jimmy O'Dea as Pat
Ethel Coleridge as Aunt Agnes
Maire O'Neill as Widow Clegg
Jack Livesey as Bert
Syd Crossley as Uncle Lancelot
James Harcourt as Amos Cook
Frederick Burtwell as Policeman
Lloyd Pearson as Alf - Publican
Billy Russell as Minor Role
Thomas Browne Writer
Ernest Aldridge Editor
Gordon Dines Director of Photography
Wilfred Shingleton Art Direction
Basil Dearden Assistant Director
Thomas Thompson Writer
Walter Meade Writer
Ronald Neame Director of Photography
Eric Williams Sound Recordist
Carol Reed Director
Basil Dean Story
United Kingdom 23 September 1938
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