The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.

Mary Ure
as Clara Dawes

Trevor Howard
as Walter Morel

Dean Stockwell
as Paul Morel

Wendy Hiller
as Gertrude Morel

Heather Sears
as Miriam Leivers

William Lucas
as William Morel

Conrad Phillips
as Baxter Dawes

Ernest Thesiger
as Mr. Hadlock

Donald Pleasence
as Mr. Pappleworth

Rosalie Crutchley
as Mrs. Leivers
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Dean Stockwell is on good form here, as the artistically talented "Paul" who lives with his miner father "Walter" (Trevor Howard) and mother (Wendy Hiller). When tragedy strikes their local mine, she is even more determined to ensure that this son does not go down the pit - and when "Hadlock" (Ernes...