Movie Drama
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Basil Radford Niall MacGinnis Bernard Miles Julien Mitchell Kenneth More Geoffrey Keen Patrick Troughton Hattie Jacques Eric Pohlmann John Harvey Josephine Wilson Russell Waters Peter Jones Bernard Rebel Amy Veness Stanley Van Beers Norman Pierce Gordon McLeod Compton MacKenzie Nigel Fitzgerald Alastair Hunter Mollie Palmer George Street Stanley Rose Erik Chitty Leonard Sharp John Boddington Hilda Fenemore Helen Harvey Peggy Ann Clifford Sam Kydd Jim Watts Henry Bryce Basil Cunard Tony Halfpenny Howell Davies Donald Tandy Noel Dyson
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