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
Cast
Jack Warner
Philip Stafford
Greta Gynt
Pat Parsons
Marjorie Fielding
Ruth Stafford
Yvonne Owen
Carol Stafford
Jack Watling
Dennis Stafford
Petula Clark
Jackie Stafford
Mabel Constanduros
Grandma Stafford
David Tomlinson
Martin Latham
Maurice Denham
Detective-Inspector Kirby
Mervyn Johns
Herbert Atkins
Dennis Price
Joe Henty
Joan Young
Agnes Atkins
Gordon McLeod
Mr. Cameron
Grey Blake
Wilson
Bill Owen
Mr. Lee
Edward Rigby
Edward Ball
Guy Rolfe
Archie
Raymond Lovell
Cyprus, the conductor
Ernest Butcher
Clerk
Hugh Pryse
Martin
Jack Raine
Managing Director
Richard Molinas
Johnny
Frank Cellier
Manager
John Blythe
2nd Waiter (uncredited)
Dennis Harkin
1st Waiter (uncredited)
David Horne
Mr. Hessian (voice) (uncredited)
Constance Smith
Wilson's Secretary (uncredited)
Geoffrey Sumner
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
John Tatham
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Crew
Bernard Knowles
Director
Arnold Ridley
Writer
Sydney Box
Screenplay, Executive Producer
Muriel Box
Screenplay
Vladimir Sagovsky
Editor
Jack Asher
Director of Photography
A. Frank Bundy
Producer
Arthur Alcott
Production Controller
David Harcourt
Camera Operator
Joan Ellacott
Costume Design
W.T. Partleton
Makeup Artist
George Provis
Supervising Art Director
Les Hammond
Sound Recordist
Temple Abady
Original Music Composer
William N. Boyle
Production Manager
Muir Mathieson
Conductor
Cedric Dawe
Art Direction
