☆ ☆ ☆ ½
A Run For Your Money (1949) – C. Frend
Charming tale (from
Ealing Studios) of two Welsh men (Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards) who
travel to London after winning £200 and have a variety of comic misadventures.
Director Charles Frend keeps things moving at a brisk pace as the lads get
separated almost immediately, with one falling into the hands of a beautiful
con artist and the other meeting up with a long-lost friend and harp player from
the old country. Alec Guinness, an Ealing favourite, plays a gardening
columnist (for the newspaper that sponsored the contest) charged with tracking
them down and writing a human interest story about them. Not exactly madcap but gently humorous –
unless you are from Wales when apparently the many stereotypes on display are
thought to be in bad taste. Perhaps not up there with Ealing’s greatest but
enjoyable nonetheless.
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