Easy Money (1949)

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didnt get posted A mildmannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting A doublebass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals as when a coupon checker is tempted by his nightclub singer girlfriend to cheat the company Written by Jeremy Perkins