- Writer:
- Henry Reed
- Producer:
- Douglas Cleverdon
- Music composed by:
- Donald Swann
- Herbert Reeve, a scholar:
- Hugh Burden
- Hilda Tablet, a composeress:
- Mary O'Farrell
- Evelyn Baxter, her secretary:
- Colin Campbell
- Elsa Strauss, a singer:
- Marjorie Westbury
- General Gland, a general:
- Deryck Guyler
- Nancy Shewin:
- Dorothy Primrose
- Janet, her daughter:
- Gwen Cherrell
- Owen, Brian, and George, some of her sons:
- Denis Quilley,
- Owen, Brian, and George, some of her sons:
- Wilfrid Downing
- Owen, Brian, and George, some of her sons:
- M. Westbury
- Stephen Shewin:
- Carleton Hobbs
- Connie, his wife:
- Gwen Cherrell
- Captain Smithers:
- Frank Duncan
- Aeschylus Aphanisis, a millionaire:
- Harold Lang
- Plankton, his secretary:
- Frank Duncan
- Flamenco singer:
- Marjorie Westbury
- Flamenco singer:
- Denis Quilley
