Drama /

Score: 72%( 13 votes )

Overview: A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

Cast:

Richard Attenborough
Jack Read

Sheila Sim
Lynne Hartley

Bernard Miles
Mr. Read

Cecil Trouncer
Lloyd Hartley

Joan Hickson
Mrs. Read

Edith Sharpe
Mrs. Hartley

Robert Flemyng
Nigel Lorraine

John Forrest
Fitch

Herbert Lomas
Sir James Corfield

Brenda Hogan
Lorna Beckett

Wally Patch
Uncle Percy

Olive Sloane
Aunt Mabel

Hay Petrie
Peck

Timothy Bateson
Tracey

Kynaston Reeves
The Bishop

Anthony Nicholls
Mr. Stringer

Clive Baxter
Gregory

Basil Cunard
Buckton

Maureen Glynne
Bessie

Anthony Newley
Miles Minor

Oscar Quitak
David Tracey

Peter Reynolds
Grimmett

Tony Wager
Bert

Percy Walsh
Alec Stevens

Norman Watson
Fanshaw

Ray Cooney

Ambrose Day

Robert Desmond
(Uncredited)

Edward Judd

James Kenney

Michael McKeag

Jack McNaughton

Desmond Newling

Digby Wolfe