A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
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Alec Guinness as Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin
Glynis Johns as Ruth Earp
Valerie Hobson as Countess of Chell
Petula Clark as Nellie Cotterill
Edward Chapman as Mr. Duncalf
Veronica Turleigh as Mrs. Machin
George Devine as Mr. Calvert
Joan Hickson as Mrs. Codleyn
Frank Pettingell as Police Superintendent
Gibb McLaughlin as Emery
Peter Copley as P. Shillitoe (uncredited)
Mark Daly as Lord Mayor (uncredited)
Deidre Doyle as Widow Hullins (uncredited)
Henry Edwards as Mr. Cotterill (uncredited)
Lyn Evans as Cregeen (uncredited)
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Lord at the Liverpool Dock
Michael Hordern as Bank Manager
Matthew Guinness as Denry as a Boy
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