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Penny Paradise (Original title)Penny Wise (Working title)
Date: 24 September 1938 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Carol Reed

Synopsis: Comedy of a tug captain who has two ambitions: to captain the new tug and win the pools. He believes he has won the second until he finds the coupon was not posted, but gets the first.

Genre:
Musical
Releases
Date: 24 September 1938Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 72 mins Length: 6476 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (18)
Production Company: Associated Talking Pictures, Producer: Basil Dean, [Production] Supervised by: Jack Kitchin, Assistant Director: Basil Dearden, Scenario and Dialogue: Thomas Thompson, Scenario and Dialogue: W.L. Meade, Thomas Browne, Story Suggestion by: Basil Dean, Photography: Ronald Neame, Photography: Gordon Dines, Editor: Ernest Aldridge, Art Director: Wilfrid Shingleton, Music and Lyrics: Harry Parr-Davies, Harry O'Donovan, Sound Recordist: Eric Williams, Sound System: RCA, Made/Recorded at: ATP Studios (Ealing)
Cast (10)
Edmund Gwenn (Joe), Jimmy O'Dea (Pat), Betty Driver (Betty), Maire O'Neill (Widow Clegg), Ethel Coleridge (Aunt Agnes), Syd Crossley (Uncle Lancelot), James Harcourt (Amos Cook), Jack Livesey (Bert), Billy Russell ([uncredited]), Frederick Burtwell (policeman)