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.

Top Cast

Mary UreClara Dawes

Trevor HowardWalter Morel

Dean StockwellPaul Morel

Wendy HillerGertrude Morel

Heather SearsMiriam Leivers

William LucasWilliam Morel

Conrad PhillipsBaxter Dawes

Ernest ThesigerMr. Hadlock