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Starring Kieron Moore, Greta Gynt, Sarah Lawson, Mervyn Johns

Embittered by his war experiences Merchant Navy officer Mike Merriworth takes a post as instructor at an Outward Bound Sea School and begins to discover a new purpose in life.
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Contributors

Screenplay/Based on a story by:
Don Sharp
Screenplay:
John Pudney
Director:
Wolf Rilla
Producer:
Herbert Mason
Mike Merriworth:
Kieron Moore
Mrs Mary Griffith:
Greta Gynt
Gwyneth Thomas:
Sarah Lawson
Captain Snow:
Mervyn Johns
Dr Tigara:
Ram Gopal
Number One:
Edwin Richfield
Instructor Hunter:
D'Arcy Conyers
Instructor Hughes:
Harold Siddons
Instructor Digger:
Vincent Ball
Raymond Curtiss:
Russell Napier
Mrs Snow:
Mary Kerridge
Charlie Barton:
Harry Fowler
Andrew Griffin:
John Charles Worth
Tony Mullins:
Brian Roper
Sparrow:
Tony Newley

by Alberto Moravia
A second chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Ray Lawler
Starring Margaret Whiting

Rome in 1943. Cesira, a widow, has all she desires - a shop which, in spite of the war, provides a good living, a flat and a daughter whom she adores.

Contributors

Author:
Alberto Moravia
Dramatised by:
Ray Lawler
Cesira:
Margaret Whiting

Starring Richard Widmark, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde
with Celeste Holm

When Jefty Robbins hires night club singer Lily Stevens to work in his road house the manager Pete Morgan warns Lily about the boss's weakness for pretty young girls.
But when Pete and Lily fall in love the insanely jealous Jefty hits on an ingeniously malevolent plan for revenge.

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Contributors

Director:
Jean Negulesco
Jefty:
Richard Widmark
Lily:
Ida Lupino
Pete:
Cornel Wilde
Susie:
Celeste Holm
Arthur:
O.Z. Whitehead
Mike:
Robert Karnes
Lefty:
George Beranger
Sheriff:
Ian MacDonald
Judge:
Grandon Rhodes

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