Alec Guinness as Captain Henry St. James

Yvonne De Carlo as Nita St. James

Celia Johnson as Maud St. James

Charles Goldner as Chief Officer Ricco

Miles Malleson as Lawrence St. James

Walter Crisham as Bob

Nicholas Phipps as The Major

Bill Fraser as Absalom (taxi driver)

Ferdy Mayne as The Sheikh

Sebastian Cabot as Ali (vendor)

Peter Bull as Kalikan firing-squad officer

Roger Delgado as Kalikan Policeman

Ambrosine Phillpotts as Marjorie

Henry B. Longhurst as Professor Killick

Bernard Rebel as Mr. Wheeler