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.
Richard Attenborough
as Jack Read
Sheila Sim
as Lynne Hartley
Bernard Miles
as Mr. Read
Cecil Trouncer
as Lloyd Hartley
Joan Hickson
as Mrs. Read
Edith Sharpe
as Mrs. Hartley
Robert Flemyng
as Nigel Lorraine
John Forrest
as Fitch
Herbert Lomas
as Sir James Corfield
Brenda Hogan
as Lorna Beckett
Wally Patch
as Uncle Percy
Olive Sloane
as Aunt Mabel
