Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

Richard Attenborough
as Percy Boon

Alastair Sim
as Mr. Squales

Fay Compton
as Mrs. Josser

Stephen Murray
as Uncle Henry

Wylie Watson
as Mr. Josser

Susan Shaw
as Doris Josser

Hugh Griffith
as Headlam Fynne

Joyce Carey
as Mrs Vizzard

Ivy St. Helier
as Connie Coke

Andrew Crawford
as Bill
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Richard Attenborough leads a somewhat disjointed cast in this rather lengthy drama. He is "Percy", a rather impressionable young man who lives with his beloved mother (Gladys Henson) in a boarding house amidst a host of interesting lodgers. Sadly for him, he is soon mixed up with the wrong sort - so...