Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
Richard Attenborough
as Pinkie Brown
Hermione Baddeley
as Ida Arnold
William Hartnell
as Dallow
Nigel Stock
as Cubitt
Wylie Watson
as Spicer
Carol Marsh
as Rose Brown
Harcourt Williams
as Prewitt
Virginia Winter
as Judy
Reginald Purdell
as Frank
George Carney
as Phil Corkery
Charles Goldner
as Colleoni
Alan Wheatley
as Fred Hale
