Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick

Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley

Emlyn Williams as Joe Gowlan

Nancy Price as Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother

Allan Jeayes as Richard Barras - the mine owner

Edward Rigby as Robert Fenwick - Davey's father

Desmond Tester as Hughie Fenwick - Davey's brother

David Markham as Arthur Barras - Barras' son

Cecil Parker as Stanley Millington

Linden Travers as Mrs. Laura Millington

Milton Rosmer as Harry Nugent, MP

George Carney as Slogger Gowlan

Ivor Barnard as Wept

Olga Lindo as Mrs. Sunley

Aubrey Mallalieu as Hudspeth

Kynaston Reeves as Strother

Clive Baxter as Pat Reedy

James Harcourt as Will

Frederick Burtwell as Union Official

Dorothy Hamilton as Mrs. Reedy

Frank Atkinson as Miner

David Horne as Mr. Wilkins

Edmund Willard as Mr. Ramage

Ben Williams as Harry Brace

Scott Harrold as Headmaster Strother

Lionel Barrymore as Narrator (U.S. release only) (voice)

Howard Douglas as Miner at Rescue

Cameron Hall as Cinema Commissionaire

Bryan Herbert as Man Outside Football Ground

Vincent Holman as 1st Arresting Policeman

Roddy Hughes as Union Committee Member

Mike Johnson as Looting Miner

Vi Kaley as Old Woman at Looting

Laurence Kitchin as Dickie - Butcher's Boy

Charles Rolfe as 2nd Arresting Policeman

D.J. Williams as Union Committee Chairman