Value for Money

1955
1h 30m

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Diana Dors and John Gregson in Value for Money (1955)

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.

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5.9/10

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Trivia
Third feature film of Donald Pleasence.

Quotes
[at the mill, before Broadbent's funeral, the employees are speculating on the size of his estate]
Mr. Hall: How much d'you think he's left?
Duke Popplewell: Well, if he'd been in shoddy, I should have said about...
Duke Popplewell: [whispers, confidentially] ... a hundred and fifty thousand.
Duke Popplewell: But seeing as how he were only a rag merchant...
Duke Popplewell: [whispers, confidentially] ... not more than forty thousand.
Mr. Hall: Get away with you! I bet it's not a penny less than...
Mr. Hall: [whispers, confidentially] fifty thousand.
Duke Popplewell: No, never!
Mr. Hall: Eh, Limpy?
Limpy: I'm with the family. I'm not saying anything. But...
[Limpy checks that he can't be overheard]
Limpy: ...I'll wager young Chayley'll double it before his turn comes to lie there.

Crazy credits
Opening credits prologue: BARFIELD, YORKSHIRE, IS NO BEAUTY. ITS PRIDE ARE ITS "RAG AND SHODDY" WOOL TRADES

IT FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT WHERE THERE'S MUCK THERE'S MONEY

IT HAS PLENTY OF BOTH

Connections
Featured in Remembering John Gregson (2019)

Soundtracks
Toys for Boys
Music by John Pritchett
Words by Peter Myers and Alec Grahame
Arranged and Danced by Paddy Stone Irving Davies

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4/10

A Run for Your Money

Batley as it looked in the fifties got the film star treatment photographed in Technicolor & VistaVision by top cameraman Geoffrey Unsworth masquerading as the fictitious mill town of Barfield in this silly farce in which parsimonious northerner John Gregson inherits £62k from his old man (seen solely in pictures played by an uncredited Frederick Piper) and visits the fleshpots of London where we're treated to a breathtakingly vulgar and gaudy musical number before he falls for the voluptuous charms of hard and brassy Diana Dors.

Miss Dors (who at one point dives into a swimming pool in a bikini, plainly doubled for the dive itself, and emerging from the water her blonde mane still dry & set) demonstrates she sure knew how to spend money in those long-ago days when a seven-bedroom timbered house in the North of England cost a eye-watering £5,800.