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.

• Release date
• November 9, 1953
• Runtime
• 80 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Daniel Birt

Cast

Valerie Hobson Barbie Lomax Philip Friend John Lomax Norman Wooland Bill Ogden Janette Scott Jess Lomax Mandy Miller Linda Lomax Jeremy Spenser Adrian Lomax

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Lily Kann Brownie Helen Shingler Mary Wallace