Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Michael Redgrave
as Davey Fenwick
Margaret Lockwood
as Jenny Sunley
Emlyn Williams
as Joe Gowlan
Nancy Price
as Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother
Allan Jeayes
as Richard Barras - the mine owner
Edward Rigby
as Robert Fenwick - Davey's father
Desmond Tester
as Hughie Fenwick - Davey's brother
David Markham
as Arthur Barras - Barras' son
Cecil Parker
as Stanley Millington
Linden Travers
as Mrs. Laura Millington
Milton Rosmer
as Harry Nugent, MP
George Carney
as Slogger Gowlan
