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Synopsis

Two Welsh coalminers go on a wild day trip to London in this remastered Ealing Studios comedy classic. After winning a contest, Jones brothers David (Donald Houston) and Thomas (Meredith Edwards) head to London to collect their cash prize. A refined journalist (Alec Guinness) is supposed to meet and escort the men but ends up chasing after them as they lurch into one hilarious big-city adventure after another. Hugh Griffith costars.

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Charles Frend

Charles Frend (21 November 1909, Pulborough, Sussex – 8 January 1977) was an English film director.

Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock’s Waltzes from Vienna (1934) moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock’s movies Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936) and Young and Innocent (1937).

For several years, Frend was based at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s British facilities at Elstree, where he edited MGM’s A Yank at Oxford (1938), The Citadel (1938) and Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939). Frend graduated to director in 1942, with a series of above-average propaganda pictures and documentaries. After the war, he undertook several prestigious assignments including Scott of the Antarctic (1948) and The Cruel Sea (1953).

While most of his films were large-scale and dramatic in nature, Frend was also capable of turning out such modest comedies as A Run for Your Money (1949) and… read more

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