"A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him."
Charles Laughton
as Henry Horatio Hobson
John Mills
as William Mossop
Brenda De Banzie
as Maggie Hobson
Daphne Anderson
as Alice Hobson
Prunella Scales
as Vicky Hobson
Richard Wattis
as Albert Prosser
Derek Blomfield
as Freddy Beenstock
Helen Haye
as Mrs. Hepworth
Joseph Tomelty
as Jim Heeler
Julien Mitchell
as Sam Minns
Gibb McLaughlin
as Tudsbury
Philip Stainton
as Denton
Dorothy Gordon
as Ada Figgins
Madge Brindley
as Mrs. Figgins
John Laurie
as Dr. McFarlane
Raymond Huntley
as Nathaniel Beenstock
Jack Howarth
as Tubby Wadlow
Herbert C. Walton
as Printer
Edie Martin
as Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited)
Leonard Sharp
as Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop (uncredited)
Robert Brooks Turner
as Beanstock Worker Who Finds Hobson in Cellar (uncredited)
David Lean
Director
Screenplay
Wynyard Browne
Harold Brighouse
Theatre Play
Producer
Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
Peter Taylor
Editor
Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction
John Armstrong
Costume Design
George Partleton
Makeup Artist
Tony Sforzini
Adrian Pryce-Jones
Assistant Director
John Palmer
Production Manager
Norman Spencer
Associate Producer
Ken Ritchie
Boom Operator
Margaret Townsend
Production Secretary
Ray Hearne
Still Photographer
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Julia Squire
Costume Supervisor
Peter Newbrook
Camera Operator
John Cox
Sound Supervisor
Buster Ambler
Sound Recordist
Red Law
William Hutchinson
Assistant Art Director
Gladys Atkinson
Hairdresser
Maggie Unsworth
Continuity
Barbara Hopkins
Sound
Alan Hall
Clapper Loader