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Background
When a marriage breaks down, what happens to the children?
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
Cast
- Valerie Hobson as Barbie Lomax
- Philip Friend as John Lomax
- Norman Wooland as Bill Ogden
- Janette Scott as Jess Lomax
- Mandy Miller as Linda Lomax
- Jeremy Spenser as Adrian Lomax
- Lily Kann as Brownie
- Helen Shingler as Mary Wallace
- Thora Hird as Mrs. Humphries
- Louise Hampton as Miss Russell
- Jack Melford as Mackay
- Richard Wattis as David Wallace
Details
- Director
- Daniel Birt
- Released
- November 9, 1953
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Group 3 Productions
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.0 / 10 from 2 votes
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