

108 minutes
2/5/1948
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.

Michael Denison
as Jonathan Dakers

Dulcie Gray
as Rachel Hammond

Ronald Howard
as Harold Dakers
Stephen Murray
as Dr. Craig

Mary Clare
as Mrs. Dakers

Finlay Currie
as Dr. Hammond

Beatrice Campbell
as Edie Martyn

James Robertson Justice
as Eugene Dakers

James Hayter
as Tom Morse
Jessica Spencer
as Connie
Stuart Lindsell
as Mr. Martyn

Avice Landone
as Mrs. Martyn

Wylie Watson
as Bagley

Josephine Stuart
as Lily
Fred Groves
as Lisha Hodgkiss

Beatrice Varley
as Mrs. Hodgkiss
Felix Deebank
as Alec Martyn
Eric Messiter
as Surgeon Moore

Paul Farrell
as Dr. Lucas

Jack Melford
as Dr. Martock
David Ward
as Dr. Frampton

John Salew
as Wilburn
Peter Hobbes
as Dr. Monaghan

Kathleen Boutall
as Mrs. Gaige

Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Mr. Gaige

George Woodbridge
as Stevens
Leslie Weston
as Wheeler

Merle Tottenham
as Alice Rudge
Grace Denbigh Russell
as The Matron

Howard Douglas
as Bailiff
Derek Farge
as Edward Willis

Eunice Gayson
as Young Girl

Nora Gordon
as Mrs. Stevens

Cameron Hall
as Joseph the Porter
Kathleen Heath
as Barmaid
Paul Blake
as Edward Smith Watson

Thora Hird
as Ada
Maurice Jones
as Foundry Foreman

Vi Kaley
as Old Crone
Fred Kitchen
as Tyldesley
Daniel King
as Rev. Perry
Ruth Lodge
as Mrs. Craig

Johnnie Schofield
as Trade Union Man
Jane Shirley
as Maid
Wendy Thompson
as Nurse

Elsie Wagstaff
as Factory Worker
Hazel Adair
as Mary
Ernest Borrow
as Butler

Ernest Butcher
as Porter

Ray Cooney
as Ralph Hingston
Basil Cunard
as Police Sergeant
Andreas Malandrinos
as French Postman
Beatrice Marsden
as Mary, 1946
Elizabeth Maude
as Mrs. Bagley
Janet Morrison
as Sister Cronshaw
Sydney Moncton
as Dancer at Martyn's Party

Arthur Young
as Sir Joseph Higgins
Pete Murray
as Tony Dakers

Hilda Bayley
as Mrs. Perry

Grace Arnold
as Woman in Court
Paul Sheridan
as French Guest at Hotel Cecil
Desmond Newling
as Young Jonathan
Hilary Pritchard
as Bailiff