Easy Money

Easy Money - 1948 | 94 mins | Comedy, Drama | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Bernard Knowles.
Producer: A. Frank Bundy.
Script: Muriel Box and Sydney Box. (from the play by Arnold Ridley)
Cinematography: Jack Asher.
Film Editing: Vladimir Sagovsky .
Art Direction: Cedric Dawe.
Costume Design: Joan Ellacott.
Makeup Department: W.T. Partleton..
Sound Department: Leslie Hammond and B.C. Sewell.
Original Music: Temple Abady and Vivian Ellis.

The Cast

Greta Gynt - Pat Parsons
Dennis Price - Joe Henty
Jack Warner - Philip Stafford
Mervyn Johns - Herbert Atkins
Edward Rigby - Edward 'Teddy' Ball
Bill Owen - Mr. Lee
Guy Rolfe - Archie
David Tomlinson - Martin
Petula Clark - Jackie Stafford
Marjorie Fielding - Ruth Stafford
Frank Cellier - Manager
Jack Watling - Dennis Stafford
Maurice Denham - Inspector Kirby

Plot Synopsis

Half-hearted moralistic portmanteau comedy-drama directed by Bernard Knowles and written by the then Gainsborough husband-and-wife team of Sydney and Muriel Box. In the era of post-war austerity, the film chronicles the fortunes of four very different football pools winners as they enjoy the luxuries afforded them by their new-found wealth.

There has been a jackpot on the football pools and the suburban Stafford family believe their daughter has forgotten to post their coupon – but it was the previous week’s coupon and they have won £12,000 from Imperial Pools! Henpecked clerk Herbert Atkins (Mervyn Johns) is also a winner but doesn’t wish any publicity despite his wife Agnes insistence to the contrary – but a tragic twist of fate intervenes. Soho nightclub singer Pat Parsons (Greta Gynt) seduces a pools checker (Dennis Price) into entering a fraudulent coupon but an investigator (Bill Owen) uncovers the truth. Double-bass player Teddy Ball (Edward Rigby) buys up his orchestra and maddens the conductor he hates by placing the double-basses in front of the violins.