An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

Charles Laughton
as Jocko Wilson

Binnie Barnes
as Aggie Dawlins

Richard Carlson
as Nipper Wilson

Donna Reed
as Mary Wilson

Christopher Severn
as Nipper Wilson (child)

Clyde Cook
as Ginger Gaffney

Stephen McNally
as Dusty Rhodes

Arthur Shields
as Father Polycarp

Evelyn Falke
as Mary, as a child

Hobart Cavanaugh
as Boots