

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

Ralph Richardson
Sir Wilfred Robarts

Deborah Kerr
Nurse Plimsoll

Beau Bridges
Leonard Vole

Donald Pleasence
Mr. Myers

Wendy Hiller
Janet Mackenzie

Diana Rigg
Christine Vole
David Langton
Mayhew

Richard Vernon
Brogan-Moore

Peter Sallis
Carter

Michael Gough
Judge

Frank Mills
Chief Inspector Hearne

Michael Nightingale
Clerk of the Court

Peter Copley
Dr. Harrison
Patricia Leslie
Mrs. French
John Kidd
Court Usher

Ken Kitson
Policeman (as Kit Kitson)
Wilfred Grove
Photographer
Primi Townsend
Diana

Andrew MacLachlan
Jury Foreman

Aubrey Woods
Tailor
Alan Gibson
John Gay, Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz, Lawrence B. Marcus
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