Cast
- Laurence Harvey - Joe Lampton
- Simone Signoret - Alice Aisgill
- Heather Sears - Susan Brown
- Donald Wolfit - Mr. Brown
- Donald Houston - Charlie Soames
- Hermione Baddeley - Elspeth
- Allan Cuthbertson - George Aisgill
- Raymond Huntley - Mr. Hoylake
- John Westbrook - Jack Wales
- Ambrosine Phillpotts - Mrs. Brown
- Richard Pasco - Teddy
- Beatrice Varley - Aunt
- Delena Kidd - Eva
- Ian Hendry - Cyril
- April Olrich - Mavis
- Mary Peach - June Samson
- Anthony Newlands - Bernard
- Avril Elgar - Miss Gilchrist
- Thelma Ruby - Miss Breith
- Paul Whitsun-Jones - Laughing Man at Bar
- Derren Nesbitt - Thug in Fight On Tow Path
- Derek Benfield - Man in bar
- Richard Caldicot - Taxi driver
- Wendy Craig - Joan
- Basil Dignam - Priest
- Jack Hedley - Architect
- Miriam Karlin - Gertrude
- Wilfrid Lawson - Uncle Nat
- Prunella Scales - Council Office Worker
- John Welsh - Mayor
- Sheila Raynor - Vera
- John Moulder Brown – Urchin (uncredited)
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Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”
“Who first seduc’d them to that fowl revolt?
Th’ infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv’d
The Mother of Mankinde, what time his Pride
Had cast him out from Heav’n, with all his Host
Of Rebel Angels,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)