Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Dulcie Gray
Ronald Howard
Stephen Murray
Mary Clare
Finlay Currie
Beatrice Campbell
James Robertson Justice
James Hayter
Jessica Spencer
Stuart Lindsell
Avice Landone
Wylie Watson
Josephine Stuart
Fred Groves
Beatrice Varley
Felix Deebank
Eric Messiter
Paul Farrell
Jack Melford
David Ward
John Salew
Peter Hobbes
Kathleen Boutall
Wilfrid Hyde-White
George Woodbridge
Leslie Weston
Merle Tottenham
Grace Denbigh Russell
Howard Douglas
Derek Farge
Eunice Gayson
Nora Gordon
Cameron Hall
Kathleen Heath
Paul Blake
Thora Hird
Maurice Jones
Vi Kaley
Fred Kitchen
Daniel King
Ruth Lodge
Johnnie Schofield
Jane Shirley
Wendy Thompson
Elsie Wagstaff
Hazel Adair
Ernest Borrow
Ernest Butcher
Ray Cooney
Basil Cunard
Andreas Malandrinos
Beatrice Marsden
Elizabeth Maude
Janet Morrison
Sydney Moncton
Arthur Young
Pete Murray
Hilda Bayley
Grace Arnold
Paul Sheridan
Desmond Newling
Hilary Pritchard