A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins

• DirectorBernard Knowles
• Release20 January 1948
• Genre
  Crime / Drama
• Duration1h 34m
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• Rate
  

  6.0
  6 reviews
• Productions

  Gainsborough Pictures, J. Arthur Rank Organisation