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This outstanding drama traces the turbulent life of a seaman brutalised by a life of hard work and hard drinking, and the challenges facing the three children he abandons as they struggle to make their way in Depression-era Liverpool. When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake. (Network)
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Robert Newton
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
Gaslight (1940)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Kathleen Harrison
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
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Susan Shaw
UK
Best movies:
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Richard Burton
UK
Best movies:
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Patrick Troughton
UK
Best movies:
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James Hayter
India
Best movies:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Anita Sharp-Bolster
Ireland
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
John Boxer
UK
Best movies:
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
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The Adventures of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Harry Fine
Ireland
Best movies:
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)