Easy Money (1948)
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Easy Money is a satire of that most venerated of all middle-class British traditions, the football pool. The film is divided into four separate episodes, illustrating the effects of the football pool on the "average chap." Among those who participate in the pool in hopes of winning the 50,000-pound jackpot are the Stafford family: husband Phillip (Jack Warner), wife Ruth (Marjorie Fielding), son Dennis (Jack Watling), and daughter Jackie (Petula Clark). Other interested parties are the Atkins clan -- Herbert ($Mervyn Johns) and Agnes ($Joan Young) -- and lovers Pat (Greta Gynt) and Joe (Dennis Price). Among the huge cast of supporting players, Edward Rigby stands out as the hapless Teddy Ball. Critics of the time noted that Easy Money was faintly reminiscent of the all-star 1932 Hollywood film If I Had a Million. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Frank Cellier - Orchestra Conductor
- Mabel Constanduros - Grandma
- Greta Gynt - Pat Parsons
- Raymond Lovell - Mr. Cyprus
- Bill Owen - Mr. Lee
- Frederick Piper - Martin
- Edward Rigby - Teddy Ball
- David Tomlinson - Martin
- Jack Watling - Dennis Stafford
- John Blythe - Waiter
- Grey Blake - Wilson
- E.V.H. Emmett - Commentary
- Dennis Harkin
- Petula Clark - Jackie Stafford
- Marjorie Fielding - Ruth Stafford
- Mervyn Johns - Herbert Atkins
- Gordon McLeod - Cameron
- Yvonne Owen - Carol Stafford
- Dennis Price - Joe Henry
- Guy Rolfe - Archie
- Jack Warner - Phillip Stafford
- Joan Young - Agnes Atkins
- Maurice Denham - Detective Inspector Kirby
- Freddie Carpenter - Dance Director [uncredited]
- Jack Raine - Managing Director, Pools
- David Horne - Mr. Hessian
- Director(s):
- Bernard Knowles
- Writer(s):
- Muriel Box, Sydney Box
- Producer(s):
- Frank F. Bundy
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