A Run for Your Money (1949)
Donald Houston: Dai
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Quotes
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Editor : Well, now, we must just establish your identity.
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Identity?
Editor : Oh, purely a formality, of course.
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : But I've never had to do that before. They all know me back home, see?
Whimple : But you must have an identity card, don't you?
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Well, it's behind the teapot at home, with my union card. Best place for them - I might lose them in London.
Editor : Ah. Heh.
[pause]
Editor : Edmund?
Whimple : May I suggest, uh...
[dialing gesture]
Editor : Ah, exactly. Ring up the manager of the colliery. No doubt he can help us.
Whimple : Excuse me, sir.
[takes phone and dials 0]
Whimple : Get, get me...
[pause as he reads the place name again]
Whimple : Heh heh, ummm, uh, H for hyacinth, A for azalea, F for fuschia...
Editor : [taking the phone impatiently] Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch 1!
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Congratulations, sir!
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David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : What's ten bob to a man with two hundred pounds? Chicken feed is ten bob!
Thomas 'Twm' Jones : Chicken feed is counted as well as chickens.
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Jo : This your first visit to London?
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Our first visit to England.
Jo : But Wales is part of England!
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Oh,
[laughing]
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : shame on you!
Thomas 'Twm' Jones : It's easy to see you've never been to Wales, Miss.
Jo : That's right. Never been further west than the West End.
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Editor : Good Heavens, female miners! Whatever will the Coal Board think of next?
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : The young lady's not a miner, sir!
Jo : No, I was 22 last birthday.
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David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : [Regarding the hat he will wear] Never mind about the size as long as it fits, man!
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David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Is it far to St. Paul's? I've never been to a Cathedral before.
Jo : Neither have I.
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Oh, you Chapel too?
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Thomas 'Twm' Jones : What you going to do for a hat Dai?
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Wear my best cap.
[Uproar from his friends opposed to the idea]
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : I'll wear my trilby then.
Bronwen : You can't go and get you prize money in that old thing Dai.
Elderly Miner : What size do you take boy?
David 'Dai Number 9' Jones : Well never mind about the size man, so long as it fits.