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
Joan Hickson
Mrs. Codleyn
Glynis Johns
Ruth Earp
Valerie Hobson
Countess of Chell
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Lord at the Liverpool Dock
Michael Hordern
Bank Manager
Petula Clark
Nellie Cotterill
Peter Copley
P. Shillitoe (uncredited)
Edward Chapman
Mr. Duncalf
George Devine
Mr. Calvert
Gibb McLaughlin
Emery
Frank Pettingell
Police Superintendent
Veronica Turleigh
Mrs. Machin
Mark Daly
Lord Mayor (uncredited)
Deidre Doyle
Widow Hullins (uncredited)
Lyn Evans
Cregeen (uncredited)
Matthew Guinness
Denry as a Boy

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