Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.

David Warner
as Morgan Delt

Vanessa Redgrave
as Leonie Delt

Robert Stephens
as Charles Napier

Irene Handl
as Mrs. Delt

Bernard Bresslaw
as Policeman

Arthur Mullard
as Wally

Newton Blick
as Mr Henderson

Nan Munro
as Mrs Henderson

Peter Collingwood
as Geoffrey

Graham Crowden
as Counsel