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A Run for Your Money Poster stylish pop art print.
A Run for Your Money Poster
Stylish pop art print reimagining the poster for the classic Ealing comedy “A Run for Your Money“, available in three sizes & 22 colour options.
This alternative movie poster features Moira Lister, with a clenched fist hoping to swindle the two Welsh miners, played by Donald Houston & Meredith Edwards, during their trip to London to claim their prize-winnings.
With illustrations of a couple of swanky leeks and a Welsh harp, this new remixed poster design and colour scheme takes its inspiration from the original press materials that were distributed to cinema bookers & journalists to promote the charming film ahead of its release.
This new stylish pop art print is part of the Ealing Comedies Posters collection by Art & Hue to mark 75 years of Ealing Comedies.
Also available as part of a group of six 10, & 12 prints.
A Run for Your Money poster by Art & Hue
1949 was a landmark year for British comedy when Ealing Studios released “Passport to Pimlico“, “Whisky Galore!“, “Kind Hearts & Coronets“, and “A Run for Your Money” within the space of seven months.
The fourth Ealing comedy released in the same year, “A Run for Your Money” opened at the Haymarket Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion cinemas on the 24th of November 1949.
Based on a story by Clifford Evans, “A Run for your Money” sees two Welsh miners (with leeks no less) Dai Number 9 and his friend Twm win a newspaper competition and head to London to collect their prize money and tickets to see Wales play an international rugby match against England at Twickenham.
When the two colliers arrive at Paddington they miss their contact and fall in with an attractive blonde who just happened to overhear that they’re in the money.
Billed as “a spree with a harp and a harpee”, “A Run for your Money” is Meredith Edwards’ screen debut and the second film of Donald Houston. The film also stars Alec Guinness, Moira Lister, & Hugh Griffith, and was nominated for a BAFTA.
Appropriately enough for the daughter of wealthy clothiers, Joyce Grenfell has a delicious cameo as a haughty vendeuse in the film.
A Run for Your Money Poster Pop Art
Art & Hue had the pleasure to delve into the archives of the Ealing Comedies to create a new collection of stylish pop art prints related to the films, all available in three sizes and many colour options.
Available in A4, A3, and A2 sizes to fit standard-size picture frames. Please note that black frame is not included – for a guide on choosing a frame size take a look here.
An official collaboration with Studiocanal, this print is part of the Ealing Comedies collection of stylish pop art prints inspired by the classic British comedy films made at Ealing Studios, featuring Art & Hue’s signature halftone style (halftone is an age-old technique that uses dots to make up the printed image, similar to newspapers or comic books).
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“A Run for Your Money” Copyright © STUDIOCANAL Films Ltd. (1949). All rights reserved.
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