Film

Penny Paradise

6.719381h 12mComedy

Director: Carol Reed
Year: 1938

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.

Top cast

Edmund Gwenn

Joe Higgins

Betty Driver

Betty Higgins

Jimmy O'Dea

Pat

Ethel Coleridge

Aunt Agnes

Maire O'Neill

Widow Clegg

Jack Livesey

Bert

Syd Crossley

Uncle Lancelot

James Harcourt

Amos Cook

Frederick Burtwell

Policeman

Lloyd Pearson

Alf - Publican

Billy Russell

Minor Role

Directed by

Carol Reed

Written by

Thomas Browne, Thomas Thompson, Walter Meade, Basil Dean