The Pennywhistle Blues (1951)

Directors

Donald Swanson

Cast

Tommy Machaka, Harriet Qubeka, David Mukwanazi, Dolly Rathebe

The story

The film is a comical fable about an old man who gives his life savings to a priest, only for the money to be stolen by a thief (Ramokgopa), setting off a series of adventures. Eventually the thief is caught and the money returned, but before then the money is able to bring much good to several people whose hands it passes through.

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