Forrest Tucker as Alan Brooks

Jennifer Jayne as Sarah Pilgrim

Janet Munro as Anne Pilgrim

Laurence Payne as Philip Truscott

Warren Mitchell as Prof. Crevett

Frederick Schiller as Mayor Klein

Colin Douglas as Hans

Andrew Faulds as Brett

Stuart Saunders as Dewhurst

Derek Sydney as Wilde

Richard Golding as First Villager

George Herbert as Second Villager

Jeremy Longhurst as First Student Climber

Anthony Parker as Second Student Climber

Leslie Heritage as Carl

Theodore Wilhelm as Fritz

Anne Sharp as The Mother

Caroline Glazer as The Child

Garard Green as The Spotter Pilot

Jack Taylor as Voice of Beheaded Climber Jim

Anna Cameron as Evacuated Villager (uncredited)

Thomas Foulkes as Evacuating Villager (uncredited)

Otto Friese as Evacuated Villager (uncredited)

Jack Hetherington as Stationmaster (uncredited)

Philip Johns as Evacuated Villager (uncredited)

Reg Thomason as Mountain Rescue Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)