Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Roy Boulting Director
- 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 Cast
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