Home and Away

1956
1h 20m

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Kathleen Harrison, Lana Morris, Ross Pendleton, and Jack Warner in Home and Away (1956)

A man's luck suddenly changes when he wins the football pools.A man's luck suddenly changes when he wins the football pools.A man's luck suddenly changes when he wins the football pools.

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6.4/10

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Trivia
Some sources refer to this as a "Huggetts" movie. Although starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison, it has no connection with that series.

Quotes
George Knowles: If proof were wanted that money doesn't bring happiness, here it is staring us in the face...

Dismissed by the late David Shipman as "another clinker from the same bunker as 'Where There's a Will'" and scarier than most of Vernon Sewell's horror films. It all feels as if it happened about a million years ago.

Technically it's a comedy, but as most previous reviewers have commented it actually takes a grim view indeed of working class life in a row of terraced houses in the fifties as the cast squabble over a pools win.

Thora Hird is on hand to create the same menace she later brought to 'A Kind of Loving', while the cast also includes an unrecognisable teenaged Kate O'Mara (billed as 'Merrie Carroll') in a gymslip and the only postwar film appearance of former silent comedian Leslie Henson in a high collar.