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Status
Released
Release
1948
Runtime
1h 37m
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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.
34 Cast Members
Richard Attenborough
Jack Read
Sheila Sim
Lynne Hartley
Bernard Miles
Mr. Read
Cecil Trouncer
Lloyd Hartley
Joan Hickson
Mrs. Read
Edith Sharpe
Mrs. Hartley
Robert Flemyng
Nigel Lorraine
John Forrest
Fitch
Herbert Lomas
Sir James Corfield
Brenda Hogan
Lorna Beckett
Wally Patch
Uncle Percy
Olive Sloane
Aunt Mabel
Hay Petrie
Peck
Timothy Bateson
Tracey
Kynaston Reeves
The Bishop
Anthony Nicholls
Mr. Stringer
Clive Baxter
Gregory
Basil Cunard
Buckton
Maureen Glynne
Bessie
Anthony Newley
Miles Minor