Jack Warner as Jim Hardcastle

Gladys Henson as Mrs Hardcastle

Patric Doonan as Ron Stacey

Valerie Hobson as Stella

Joan Dowling as Ella

Olga Lindo as Mrs. Bailey

Susan Shaw as Doris Hardcastle

Philip Dale as Hardcastle's Fireman

Miles Malleson as Johnson, the Timekeeper

Leslie Phillips as Stacey's Fireman

Percy Walsh as District Superintendent

Will Ambro as Lancashire Railwayman

John Clements as Raymond Hillary

Irina Baronova as Irina Norozova

John Gregson as Malcolm Murray-Bruce

Gwen Cherrell as Charmian

Jacqueline Byrne as Television Announcer

Neal Arden as The Compere

Thelma Grigg as The Harpist

Laurence Payne as Richard

Denis Webb as Clerk at Shipping Office

Peter Finch as Philip Mason

Mary Morris as Louise

Laurence Naismith as Joe Hunt

Doris Yorke as Mrs. Hunt

Michael Hordern as First Plain Clothes Man

Charles Morgan as Second Plain Clothes Man

Mark Dignam as Bolingbroke

Guy Verney as The Producer

Philip Ashley as Actor

Bryan Coleman as Actor

Henry Hewitt as Actor

Lyndon Brook as Actor