The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Mary Ure
as Clara Dawes
Trevor Howard
as Walter Morel
Dean Stockwell
as Paul Morel
Wendy Hiller
as Gertrude Morel
Heather Sears
as Miriam Leivers
William Lucas
as William Morel
Conrad Phillips
as Baxter Dawes
Ernest Thesiger
as Mr. Hadlock
Donald Pleasence
as Mr. Pappleworth
Rosalie Crutchley
as Mrs. Leivers
Sean Barrett
as Arthur Morel
Elizabeth Begley
as Mrs. Radford
