
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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