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04/09/1956 Drama 1h 20m
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Overview

When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.

  1. Vernon Sewell

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jack Warner

    George Knowles

  2. Kathleen Harrison

    Elsie Knowles

  3. Lana Morris

    Mary Knowles

  4. Charles Victor

    Ted Groves

  5. Thora Hird

    Margie Groves

  6. Leslie Henson

    Uncle Tom

  7. Valerie White

    Mrs. Jarvis

  8. Harry Fowler

    Syd Jarvis

  9. Kate O'Mara

    Annie Knowles

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2019-08-10
Football Pools or Fools?

Home and Away is directed by Vernon Sewell and Sewell co-writes the screenplay with Heather McIntyre and R.F. Delderfield. It stars Jack warner, Thora Hird, Kathleen Harrison, Lana Morris, Charles Victor and Valerie White. Music is by Robert Sharples and cimematography by Basil Emmott.

A working class British family's luck seems to have turned when the father hits the jackpot on the football pools...

How wonderfully quaint and of its time, this harks back to an era when all the family lived under one roof, where the patriarch's opinion held sway and any woman ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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