Drama
Home and Away
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.
Top Cast
Jack Warner
George Knowles
Kathleen Harrison
Elsie Knowles
Lana Morris
Mary Knowles
Charles Victor
Ted Groves
Thora Hird
Margie Groves
Leslie Henson
Uncle Tom
Valerie White
Mrs. Jarvis
Harry Fowler
Syd Jarvis
Directed by
Vernon Sewell
Production
Reviews
John Chard
7/108/10/2019
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 who was remotely flighty was looked down upon. This was before the lottery's of the world started to take a hold and dangled riches beyond compare to the lucky winners. Back here in the 1950s there wa
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