Tea and Sympathy

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

Cast

Deborah Kerr

as Laura Reynolds

John Kerr

as Tom Robinson Lee

Leif Erickson

as Bill Reynolds

Edward Andrews

as Herb Lee

Darryl Hickman

as Al

Norma Crane

as Ellie Martin

Dean Jones

as Ollie

Jacqueline deWit

as Lilly Sears

Mary Alan Hokanson

as Mary Williams

Kip King

as Ted

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Initially, I thought that John Kerr looked just a bit too old to convince as the seventeen year old "Tom" but as his character unfolds in front of us, I concluded that actually his extra years helped him to add quite a degree of maturity to a role that proves a lot more complex than the title might ...

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