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Home and Away (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Home and Away' is a 1956 British second feature drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. It depicts the life of an ordinary working-class man after he wins the football pools. The film reunited Warner and Harrison who had previously appeared together in the Huggetts series of films.
Plot
After years of doing the football pools every week George Knowles (Jack Warner) is stunned to find that all his score draws have come up and he's won the "Treble Chance" jackpot. As George and his family celebrate with an impromptu party, his son Johnnie (Bernard Fox) arrives home and drops a bombshell: the coupon belongs, not to George, but to Johnnie and his workmate Sid Jarvis (Harry Fowler). But when Sid's gold-digging and wanton mother (Valerie White) finds out about the windfall she decides to lock her son up in order to keep him away from his share of the fortune.
Cast
*George Knowles – Jack Warner
*Elsie – Kathleen Harrison
*Mary – Lana Morris
*Ted Groves – Charles Victor
*Margie – Thora Hird
*Mrs. Jarvis – Valerie White
*Syd - Harry Fowler
*Annie Knowles – Merrie Carroll
*Johnnie Knowles – Bernard Fox
*Aunt Jean – Margaret St Barbe West
*Al, Mary's Boyfriend – Ross Pendleton
*Uncle Tom – Leslie Henson
*Albert West – Sam Kydd
Critical reception
'TV Guide' noted, "A few entertaining moments."
References
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