Penny Paradise (1938)

Directors

Carol Reed

Cast

Betty Driver, Edmund Gwenn, Jimmy O'Dea

The story

The film is set in Liverpool, where tugboat captain Joe Higgins, believing he has won £20,000 on the football pools, resigns from his job and throws a party in a local public house where family and friends – some of whom have an eye on a share of the winnings – gather to celebrate his good luck. Higgins pays court to the widow Clegg who he has been wooing, while his daughter Betty is targeted by a chancer who wants her money. The party grinds to a halt with the arrival of the hapless Pat, Higgins' Irish first mate on the tugboat, who is forced to admit that he forgot to post the winning pools coupon.

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