A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Sidney Poitier
as Mark Thackeray
Christian Roberts
as Denham
Judy Geeson
as Pamela Dare
Suzy Kendall
as Gillian Blanchard
Lulu
as Barbara 'Babs' Pegg
Ann Bell
as Mrs. Dare
Geoffrey Bayldon
as Theo Weston
Faith Brook
as Grace Evans
Patricia Routledge
as Clinty Clintridge
Christopher Chittell
as Potter
Lynne Sue Moon
as Miss Wong
Adrienne Posta
as Moira Joseph
