Director
Sidney Cole
DIRECTOR
Charles Crichton
Basil Dearden
Stars (in credits order)
Jack Warner
Jim Hardcastle (segment "The Engine Driver")
Gladys Henson
Mrs. Hardcastle (segment "The Engine Driver")
Susan Shaw
Doris Hardcastle (segment "The Engine Driver")
Patric Doonan
Ron Stacey (segment "The Engine Driver")
Philip Dale
Hardcastle's Fireman (segment "The Engine Driver")
Miles Malleson
Johnson, the Timekeeper (segment "The Engine Driver")
Leslie Phillips
Stacey's Fireman (segment "The Engine Driver")
Percy Walsh
District Superintendent (segment "The Engine Driver")
Will Ambro
Lancashire Railwayman (segment "The Engine Driver")
Valerie Hobson
Stella (segment "The Composer")
John Clements
Raymond Hillary (segment "The Composer")
Irina Baronova
Irina Norozova (segment "The Composer")
John Gregson
Malcolm Murray-Bruce (segment "The Composer")
Gwen Cherrell
Charmian (segment "The Composer")
Jacqueline Byrne
Television Announcer (segment "The Composer")
Neal Arden
The Compere (segment "The Composer")
Thelma Grigg
The Harpist (segment "The Composer")
Joan Dowling
Ella (segment "The Prisoner-of-War")
Laurence Payne
Richard (segment "The Prisoner-of-War")
Olga Lindo
Mrs. Bailey (segment "The Prisoner-of-War")
Denis Webb
Clerk at Shipping Office (segment "The Prisoner-of-War")
Peter Finch
Philip Mason (segment "The Actor")
Mary Morris
Louise (segment "The Actor")
Laurence Naismith
Joe Hunt (segment "The Actor")
Doris Yorke
Mrs. Hunt (segment "The Actor")
Michael Hordern
First Plain Clothes Man (segment "The Actor")
Charles Morgan
Second Plain Clothes Man (segment "The Actor")
Mark Dignam
Bolingbroke (segment "The Actor")
Guy Verney
The Producer (segment "The Actor")
Philip Ashley
Actor (segment "The Actor")
Bryan Coleman
Henry Hewitt
Lyndon Brook
Peter Burton
Second Clerk at Shipping Office (segment "The Prisoner-of-War")uncredited
Arthur Hambling
uncredited
Victor Harrington
Theatre Audienceuncredited
Anthony Quayle
Violinistuncredited
Johnnie Schofield
First Aid Man at Crash Siteuncredited
Wylie Watson
Meadows White
Train Guarduncredited