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Release Date:
January 20, 1948
Original Title:
Easy Money
Genres:
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Production Companies:
Gainsborough Pictures
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 94
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 posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Art Direction:
Cedric Dawe
Camera Operator:
David Harcourt
Conductor:
Muir Mathieson
Costume Design:
Joan Ellacott
Director:
Bernard Knowles
Director of Photography:
Jack Asher
Editor:
Vladimir Sagovsky
Executive Producer:
Sydney Box
Makeup Artist:
W.T. Partleton
Original Music Composer:
Temple Abady
Producer:
A. Frank Bundy
Production Controller:
Arthur Alcott
Production Manager:
William N. Boyle
Screenplay:
Muriel Box
Sydney Box
Sound Recordist:
Les Hammond
Supervising Art Director:
George Provis
Writer:
Arnold Ridley
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