Family Music Drama

Two a Penny (1967)

Name: Two a Penny
Genre: Family, Music, Drama
Released: 1967-12-31
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan, Avril Angers, Ann Holloway, Geoffrey Bayldon

"He promised to love her forever….today"

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1h 38m English Released

Director: James F. Collier

Overview

Set in London's Swinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.