Complete credited cast: | |||
Rita Tushingham | ... | Catherine Donovan | |
Michael Sarne | ... | Ricky Flint (as Mike Sarne) | |
Bernard Lee | ... | Matt Flint | |
Doris Hare | ... | Lil Flint | |
John Slater | ... | Jack Ellerman | |
Barbara Ferris | ... | Betsy | |
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David Andrews | ... | Jim |
William Marlowe | ... | Charlie Batey | |
Roy Kinnear | ... | Bunting | |
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Michael Wynne | ... | Pug |
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Jerry Verno | ... | Nobby Knowles |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Billy Dean | ... | Race Punter |
In Bethnal Green, life's changing for the Flints. Father may decide to quit the docks and their daughter wants a new home with her husband and expected baby. Son, Ricky's dissatisfied with his lot and eager to get away. Involved with a planned robbery of the cigarette factory where he works, his life becomes even more complicated when he gets involved with quirky Catherine. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Some excellent and vivid location work around Bethnal Green in London is the setting for this slice of "kitchen sink" life.It portrays a family struggling to keep their heads above the water as the man of the house Bernard Lee loses his job for being too mouthy at work, he then takes to the streets as an escapologist in order to get money for food on the table, quite often embarrassing himself and his family in the process. Meanwhile his son played by 60ts singing star Mike Sarne is fed up being on the breadline and turns to local gangster John Slater to do a robbery at the factory he works at, it goes wrong but he manages to get out of it in a hurry, meanwhile Sarne's love interest played by the lovely Rita Tushingham certainly is'nt an easy catch. All in all a really good slab of realism directed by the excellent Basil Dearden. Recommended.