In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
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Albert Finney as Sir
Tom Courtenay as Norman
Edward Fox as Oxenby
Zena Walker as Her Ladyship
Eileen Atkins as Madge
Michael Gough as Frank Carrington
Cathryn Harrison as Irene
Betty Marsden as Violet Manning
Sheila Reid as Lydia Gibson
Lockwood West as Geoffrey Thornton
Donald Eccles as Mr. Godstone
Llewellyn Rees as Horace Brown
Guy Manning as Benton
Anne Blackman as Beryl
Kevin Stoney as C. Rivers Lane
Ann Way as Miss White
John Sharp as Mr. Bottomley
Kathy Staff as Bombazine Woman
Roger Avon as Charles
Christopher Irvin as Evelyn the Airman
Stuart Richman as Evelyn's Friend
Sandra Gough as Actress on Station
Joe Belcher as Arthur
Johnny Maxfield as Electrician
Paul Luty as Stallkeeper
Lori Wells as Barmaid
Alan Starkey as Train Guard
Ralph G. Morse as Man at Station (uncredited)
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