
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.

Michael Redgrave
Hamer Radshaw

Rosamund John
Ann Radshaw

Bernard Miles
Tom Hannaway

Carla Lehmann
Lady Lettice

Hugh Burden
Arnold Ryerson

Marjorie Fielding
Aunt Lizzie

Seymour Hicks
Old Buck

Tony Wager
The Boy Hamer

Brian Weske
The Boy Ryerson
Gerald Fox
The Boy Hannaway
Jean Shepeard
Mrs. Radshaw

Guy Verney
Grandpa
Percy Walsh
Suddaby

David Tomlinson
Lord Liskeard
Charles Wood
Dai