- Release Date: 1949
- Runtime: 94 min
- Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Starring: Jack Warner, Marjorie Fielding, Yvonne Owen, Jack Watling ... see all
- Director: Bernard Knowles
- Plot: A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get... Read more
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One Good Story and Three Bad Ones
Jun 14, 2007
Alonzo Church - imdb.com
Jun 14, 2007Alonzo Church - imdb.com
Four players of an English football pool find that they have won EASY MONEY. This movie, in four separate stories, explores how the sudden winnings changes their lives.To a Yank, the premise of this movie (explored, documentary fashion in the... Full review
Not The Inspiration For THE MILLIONAIRE
May 29, 2007
ProfessorEcho - imdb.com
May 29, 2007ProfessorEcho - imdb.com
Just to correct an earlier post someone made here: This film was NOT the inspiration for the 1950's American television series THE MILLIONAIRE, which featured an unseen character named John Beresford Tipton giving a million dollars to a different person... Full review
Difficult
Jul 10, 2005
tedg - imdb.com
Jul 10, 2005tedg - imdb.com
This is truly dreadful. It consists of four segments, each exploring the human effects of a windfall. In one case it is an illicit windfall.What's notable is the relationship of this to the TeeVee series it spawned: "The Millionaire," where... Full review
Anti-gambling propaganda that's boring and lifeless
Jan 21, 2003
steve-thomp - imdb.com
Jan 21, 2003steve-thomp - imdb.com
This post-war short-story compendium is very average, a moralistic collection of four tales that all concern people who've won large prizes on the football pools. Though there are elements of comedy and farce, it comes across as a puritanical response... Full review
four for the price of one
Mar 29, 2002
RitaRisque - imdb.com
Mar 29, 2002RitaRisque - imdb.com
This movie is actually made up of 4 separate segments, each detailing how the football pools can affect someone's life.In the first, a family discovers they have won, and at first everything is rosy. Mother wishes to move to the... Full review
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