A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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Michael Denison
Philip Rackham
Mai Zetterling
Doris Rickardson
Jane Hylton
Frankie Rackham
André Morell
George Rackham
Flora Robson
Mary Rackham
Dennis Price
Maurice Fletcher
Peter Burton
Graham Moore
Barbara Blair
Nancy Rickardson
Mervyn Johns
Uncle Ted
Naunton Wayne
Police Inspector Saunders
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