Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity.
Stephen Archibald
as Jamie
Joseph Blatchley
as Robert
Paul Kermack
as Jamie's father
Jessie Combe
as Father's wife
William Carroll
as Their son, Archie
Morag McNee
as Father's girlfriend
Lennox Milne
as Grandmother
John Young
as Shop assistant
Gerald James
as Mr Bridge
Radir
as Egyptian boy
Andrew
as Boy in home
