Cup-Tie Honeymoon was the first motion picture to be filmed at the Dickenson Road Studios by the Mancunian Film Corporation in 1948, themed around football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

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Plot summary

A business man's son (Powell) has to choose between playing for his father's team and their rivals in a football match. He does the right thing and romantically impresses his father's secretary.

Cast

• Sandy Powell
  Sandy Powell (comedian)
  Sandy Powell MBE was an English comedian best known for his radio work of the 1930s and for his catchphrase Can You Hear Me, Mother?-Life and career:...
  
   as Joe Butler
• Dan Young
  Dan Young
  Dan Young was a British comedian and film actor. He featured in a number of Mancunian Films productions often appearing with Frank Randle.-Selected filmography:* Calling All Crooks * Somewhere in England...
  
   as Cecil Alistair
• Betty Jumel
  Betty Jumel
  Betty Jumel was a British variety hall entertainer and actress.Betty Jumel was born in Fairhaven, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire in 1901. She was aged only 10 years-old when she made her first stage appearance, alongside her father Harold Jumel, who toured an act round the music halls entitled The...
  
   as Betty
• Pat McGrath as Eric Chambers
• Violet Farebrother
  Violet Farebrother
  Violet Farebrother was an English film actress. She appeared in 25 films between 1911 and 1965, including three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
  
   as Mary Chambers
• Frank Groves as Jimmy Owen
• Joyanne Bracewell
  Joyanne Bracewell
  Dame Joyanne Winifred Bracewell, DBE, QC, FRSA was the most senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice at the time of her death, after the President of the Family Division.-Early life and career:...
  
   as Pauline May
• Vic Arnley as Grandad
• Harold Walden
  Harold Walden
  Harold Adrian Walden was an English amateur football player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics....
  
   as Himself
• Barry K. Barnes
  Barry K. Barnes
  Barry K. Barnes was a British film actor. He was born in London. He appeared in sixteen films between 1936 and 1947...
  
   as Grumpy customer
• Pat Phoenix
  Pat Phoenix
  Patricia "Pat" Frederica Phoenix was an English actress who became one of the first sex symbols of British television through her role of Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street.-Early life and career:Born in Ireland to Anna Maria Josephine Noonan and Tom Manfield, but moved to Manchester before...
  
   as Mrs. Butler (credited as Patricia Pilkington)
• Bernard Youens
  Bernard Youens
  Bernard Arthur Youens was a British character actor, best remembered for his portrayal of the workshy, beer-swilling Stan Ogden in Coronation Street from 1964 until his death in 1984....
  
   as Coalman (uncredited)

Production

Filmed in Rusholme

Rusholme

-Etymology:Rusholme, unlike other areas of Manchester which have '-holme' in the place name is not a true '-holme'. Its name came from ryscum, which is the dative plural of Old English rysc "rush": "[at the] rushes"...

, Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, much of the shooting took place on local streets and at the nearby Maine Road

Maine Road

Maine Road was a football stadium in Moss Side, Manchester, England that was home to Manchester City F.C. from its construction in 1923 until 2003...

 stadium

Stadium

A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...

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Cultural impact

Release of the film coincided with the start of the 1948 football season

1948-49 in English football

The 1948–49 season was the 69th season of competitive football in England.-Overview:Portsmouth won the First Division title for the first time with a team of no recognised stars and very few international players. They won the league by five points from Manchester United and Derby...

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