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This Mining Review item is essentially a trailer for the now largely forgotten Ealing Studios production A Run For Your Money (d. Charles Frend, 1949), a comedy about two Stakhanovite Welsh miners who win a newspaper competition and come to London to collect the prize. Much of it consists of clips from the film, with a somewhat contrived coda praising the Welsh contribution to mining and rugby and flagging up the forthcoming Wales-England match at Twickenham on April 22nd 1950. Of the rugby-playing miners cited in the commentary, W.B. Cleaver (1921-2003) was the most distinguished. Known as "Billy Kick", he won fourteen caps for Wales between 1947 and 1950 before retiring at the age of 29 to pursue a full-time mining career that culminated with the post of Deputy Director of Mining for the South Wales Coalfield (1969-85). The commentary also mentions Cliff Davies (1919-), who played for Wales seventeen times between 1947 and 1951. Michael Brooke
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