BBC television adaptation of the Philip King and Falkland L. Cary play about an imminent wedding becoming endangered by a domineering matriarch.
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Jean Burgess
Daphne Pink
James Copeland
Carnoustie Bligh, AB
Sheila Shand Gibbs
Shirley Hornett
Ronald Lewis
Albert Tufnell AB
Myrette Morven
Mrs. Lack
Peggy Mount
Emma Hornett
Cyril Smith
Henry Hornett
Ann Wilton
Edie Hornett
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