Comedy
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
Directed by
Ronald Neame
Alec Guinness
Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Lord at the Liverpool Dock
Michael Hordern
Bank Manager
Glynis Johns
Ruth Earp
Valerie Hobson
Countess of Chell
Joan Hickson
Mrs. Codleyn
Petula Clark
Nellie Cotterill
Peter Copley
P. Shillitoe (uncredited)
Edward Chapman
Mr. Duncalf
Gibb McLaughlin
Emery
George Devine
Mr. Calvert
Frank Pettingell
Police Superintendent
Lyn Evans
Cregeen (uncredited)
Veronica Turleigh
Mrs. Machin
Mark Daly
Lord Mayor (uncredited)
Deidre Doyle
Widow Hullins (uncredited)
Matthew Guinness
Denry as a Boy

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