The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Clara Dawes
Mary Ure
Walter Morel
Trevor Howard
Paul Morel
Dean Stockwell
Gertrude Morel
Wendy Hiller
Miriam Leivers
Heather Sears
William Morel
William Lucas
Baxter Dawes
Conrad Phillips
Mr. Hadlock
Ernest Thesiger
Mr. Pappleworth
Donald Pleasence
Mrs. Leivers
Rosalie Crutchley
Arthur Morel
Sean Barrett
Mrs. Radford
Elizabeth Begley
Mrs Anthony
Edna Morris
Mrs Bonner
Ruth Kettlewell
Rose
Anne Sheppard
Betty
Susan Travers
Louisa
Rosalie Ashley
Fanny
Dorothy Gordon
Connie
Vilma Ann Leslie
Beatrice
Anne Scott
Emma
Patsy Smart
May
Gwendolyn Watts
Dr Ansell
Philip Ray
Comedian
Trevor Little
Polly
Sheila Bernette