A Run for Your Money is a 1949 Ealing Studios comedy film starring Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as two Welshmen visiting London for the first time. The supporting cast includes Alec Guinness, Moira Lister and Hugh Griffith. Two Welsh coal miners from Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch, David 'Dai Number 9' Jones and Thomas 'Twm' Jones , win a contest run by the Echo newspaper . The prize is 100 pounds each, plus the best seats for an important rugby union match between Wales and England at Twickenham. For the naive Welshmen, this is their first trip to England. They are supposed to be... met at the train station by Whimple , a gardening columnist on the paper, but they miss each other. Instead, the two miners become separated when Dai is picked up by attractive con artist Jo after she overhears them talking about the prize money. At Jo's suggestion, she and Dai go to the newspaper to collect the money. The editor makes Whimple responsible for showing Dai around, but Jo soon manages to lose him.
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| Release date: | 1949 |
| Directed by: | Charles Frend |
| Runtime: | 85 Minutes |
| Producer: | Michael Balcon, Les Norman |
| Editor: | Michael Truman |
| Music by: | Ernest Irving |
| Cinematography: | Douglas Slocombe |
| Screenplay by: | Clifford Evans, Diana Morgan |
| Genre: | Comedy |