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Description: An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

Cast:
Sidney Stratton: Alec Guinness
Daphne Birnley: Joan Greenwood
Alan Birnley: Cecil Parker
Michael Corland: Michael Gough
Sir John Kierlaw: Ernest Thesiger
Cranford: Howard Marion-Crawford
Hoskins: Henry Mollison
Bertha: Vida Hope
Frank: Patric Doonan
Harry: Duncan Lamont
Wilkins: Harold Goodwin
Hill: Colin Gordon
Miss Johnson: Joan Harben
Roberts: Arthur Howard
Green: Roddy Hughes
Harrison: Stuart Latham
The Tailor: Miles Malleson
Mrs. Watson: Edie Martin
Gladdie: Mandy Miller
Mill Girl: Charlotte Mitchell
Knudsen: Olaf Olsen
Mannering: Desmond Roberts
Fotheringay: Ewan Roberts
Wilson: John Rudling
Pete: Charles Saynor
Davidson: Russell Waters
King: Brian Worth
The Lodger: George Benson
The Baker: Frank Atkinson
1st Company Director: Charles Cullum
2nd Company Director: F.B.J. Sharp
Express Reporter: Scott Harrold
Receptionist At Corland Mill: Jack Howarth
Taxi Driver: Jack McNaughton
Nurse Gamage: Judith Furse
Nightwatchman: Billy Russell
Mill Worker: Joe Phelps
Office Boy: David Boyd
Lab Technician: Dan Cressey
Reporter: Alan Haines
Chauffeur: Laurence Hepworth
Baker: Johnny Rossi
Schoolgirl in Front of Class: Carol Wolveridge

Written by: Roger MacDougall, John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Production: The Rank Organisation, Ealing Studios

Release date: 01 Apr 1952

Box Office: $8,718