When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.

Bette Davis
as Miss Lilly Christabel Moffat

Nigel Bruce
as The Squire

Rhys Williams
as Mr. Jones

Rosalind Ivan
as Mrs. Watty

Mildred Dunnock
as Miss Ronberry

Arthur Shields
as Glyn Thomas

Gwyneth Hughes
as Sarah Pugh

William Roy
as Idwal Morris

Thomas Louden
as Old Tom

John Dall
as Morgan Evans