The Common Touch
15/11/1941
2h
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On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Cast
Geoffrey Hibbert
Peter Henderson
Harry Welchman
Lincolns Inn
Greta Gynt
Sylvia Meadows
Joyce Howard
Mary
Edward Rigby
'Tich'
Bransby Williams
Ben
George Carney
Charlie
Eliot Makeham
Inky
Mark Hambourg
'Chopin'
Paul Martin
Chris
Raymond Lovell
Cartwright
John Longden
Stuart Gordon
Wally Patch
'Nobby'
Edgar Driver
'Oily'
Bernard Miles
Cricket Steward
Scott Sanders
Pat
Ian Maclaren
Harmonica Player
Jerry Verno
Office Messenger
Charles Carson
Haywood
Ben Williams
Workman Watching Dinner Time Cricket Match
John Slater
Joe
Bill Fraser
Harris
John Turnbull
Father at School Cricket Match
Marian Spencer
Mother at School Cricket Match
Grant Tyler
Son at School Cricket Match
Dennis Wyndham
Commissionaire
Hector Abbas
Foreigner
Cyril Chamberlain
Jenkins
Rowland Douglas
Manservant
Edwin Ellis
Shorty
Carroll Gibbons
Carroll Gibbons - Night Club Band Leader
Arthur Hambling
Pettit
Elizabeth Hunt
Annie
Vi Kaley
2nd Servant At Window
Margaret Lang
Miss Wayne
Eric Lugg
Winstanley
Sandy Macpherson
Sandy Macpherson - Cabaret Organist
Arthur Maude
Martin
Gerald Moore
Baker Boy
Charles Rolfe
Detective Inspector
Harry Terry
Bill
Iris Vandeleur
Alice
Percy Walsh
McFarlane
Freddie Watts
Chauffeur
Otto Friese
Club Patron
Jack May
Workman
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