Penny Paradise
- 1938 film
Poorly paid tug captain Joe Higgins gets quite a boost when his predictions up in the football pools, but not all is quite as it seems. Stars Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver, Jimmy O'Dea, Ethel Coleridge, Maire O'Neill and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1938
- Creator
- Basil Dean
- Stars
- Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver, Jimmy O'Dea, Ethel Coleridge, Maire O'Neill, Jack Livesey, Syd Crossley, Lloyd Pearson and more
- Writers
- Thomas Thompson, W. L. Meade and Thomas Browne
- Director
- Carol Reed
- Producer
- Basil Dean
- Company
Liverpool docks tug captain Joe Higgins is understandably delighted when he predicts the correct results of 15 football matches on the penny pools, estimating a prize fund of around £20,000.
As he and hard-up daughter Betty set about celebrating their good fortune, a further surprise looks set to come their way - and not least down to Joe's new-found confidence!
Additional details
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 72 minutes
- UK release
- Saturday 24th September 1938
- Distributors
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white
- Soundtrack
- Music composed and lyrics written by Harry Parr-Davies and Harry O'Donovan.
Website links
Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Tuesday 31st October 2023 at 4:20am on TPTV
- Monday 9th October 2023 at 6:00am on TPTV
- Wednesday 16th August 2023 at 12:25pm on TPTV
Recording details
- Ealing Studios - Filmed from May 1938.