Home and Away is a 1956 British second feature drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison.[1] It depicts the life of an ordinary working-class man after he wins the football pools.[2][3] The film reunited Warner and Harrison who had previously appeared together in the Huggetts series of films.[4]
Home and Away | |
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Directed by | Vernon Sewell |
Written by | Vernon Sewell (play adaptation) R. F. Delderfield (additional dialogue) |
Based on | the play Treble Trouble by Heather McIntyre |
Produced by | George Maynard |
Starring | Jack Warner Kathleen Harrison Charles Victor Thora Hird Leslie Henson |
Cinematography | Basil Emmott |
Edited by | Peter Rolfe Johnson |
Music by | Robert Sharples |
Production company | George Maynard Productions |
Distributed by | Eros Films (UK) |
Release date | 5 September 1956 (UK) |
Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
After years of doing the football pools every week George Knowles (Jack Warner) is stunned to find that all his score draws have come up and he's won the "Treble Chance" jackpot. As George and his family celebrate with an impromptu party, his son Johnnie (Bernard Fox) arrives home and drops a bombshell: the coupon belongs, not to George, but to Johnnie and his workmate Sid Jarvis (Harry Fowler). But when Sid's gold-digging and wanton mother (Valerie White) finds out about the windfall she decides to lock her son up in order to keep him away from his share of the fortune.
TV Guide noted, "A few entertaining moments."[5]
Films directed by Vernon Sewell | |
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