Penny Paradise

1h 12m
Comedy
6.7

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.

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

Crew

Carol Reed
Director
Thomas Browne
Writer
Thomas Thompson
Writer
Walter Meade
Writer
Basil Dean
Story
Ernest Aldridge
Editor
Gordon Dines
Director of Photography
Ronald Neame
Director of Photography
Basil Dearden
Assistant Director
Eric Williams
Sound Recordist
Harry Parr-Davies
Songs, Lyricist
Harry O'Donovan
Songs, Lyricist
Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction

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