Dennis Price character Louis
Valerie Hobson character Edith
Joan Greenwood character Sibella
Alec Guinness character The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Audrey Fildes character Mama
Miles Malleson character The Hangman
Clive Morton character The Prison Governor
John Penrose character Lionel
Cecil Ramage character Crown Counsel
Hugh Griffith character Lord High Steward
John Salew character Mr. Perkins
Eric Messiter character Burgoyne
Lyn Evans character The Farmer
Barbara Leake character The Schoolmistress
Peggy Ann Clifford character Maud
Anne Valery character The Girl in the punt
Arthur Lowe character The Reporter
Peter Gawthorne character First Lord Delivering Verdict (uncredited)
Molly Hamley-Clifford character Lady Redpole (uncredited)
Leslie Handford character Gamekeeper Hoskins (uncredited)
Cavan Malone character Young Graham (uncredited)
Jeremy Spenser character Young Louis (uncredited)
Carol White character Young Sibella (uncredited)
Laurence Naismith character Warder in Jail (uncredited)
Gordon Phillott character Clerk of Parliament (uncredited)
Richard Wattis character Defence Counsel (uncredited)
Harold Young character Captain (uncredited)
