
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Cast

Robert Donat
Sir Robert Morton

Cedric Hardwicke
Arthur Winslow

Margaret Leighton
Catherine Winslow

Basil Radford
Desmond Curry

Kathleen Harrison
Violet

Francis L. Sullivan
Attorney General

Marie Lohr
Grace Winslow

Jack Watling
Dickie Winslow

Walter Fitzgerald
First Lord

Frank Lawton
John Watherstone

Neil North
Ronnie Winslow

Nicholas Hannen
Col. Watherstone

Mona Washbourne
Miss Barnes

Stanley Holloway
Comico

Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wilkinson

Evelyn Roberts
Hamilton MP
W.A. Kelley
Brian O'Rourke
Edward Lexy
First Elderly Member
Vera Cook
Violet's friend
Hugh Dempster
Agricultural Member

Gordon McLeod
2nd. Elderly Member - Smoking Room

Ivan Samson
Captain Flower

Kynaston Reeves
Lord Chief Justice

Charles Groves
Clerk of the Court

Ernest Thesiger
Mr. Ridgeley Pierce

Cyril Ritchard
Himself

Lewis Casson
Adm. Springfield (uncredited)

Colin Gordon
Reporter Interviewing Dickie (uncredited)
Mary Hinton
Mrs. Elliott (uncredited)

David Horne
Bank Manager (uncredited)

Noel Howlett
Mr. Williams (uncredited)

Aubrey Mallalieu
Mr. Roberts (uncredited)

Dandy Nichols
Miss Hawkins (uncredited)

Philip Ray
First Speaking Member (uncredited)

Bill Shine
Fred (uncredited)
Frank Tickle
Mr. Gunn (uncredited)

Margaret Withers
Mrs. Jordan (uncredited)
Crew

Anthony Asquith
Director

Terence Rattigan
Screenplay, Theatre Play

Anatole de Grunwald
Screenplay, Producer
Gerald Turney-Smith
Editor

Freddie Young
Director of Photography
Teddy Baird
Associate Producer
Bill Herlihy
Extras Casting
William Chappell
Costume Design
Ben Hipkins
Sound Editor
John Cox
Sound Supervisor
Red Law
Sound
Leo Wilkins
Sound
Ken Ritchie
Boom Operator
William Alwyn
Music
Ray Hearne
Still Photographer
Ronald Kinnoch
Production Manager
Andrej Andrejew
Art Direction
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