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Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.
Cast
John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie, Earl Cameron, Johnny Sekka, Meredith Edwards, Ann Lynn, Wilfrid Brambell, Corinne Skinner-Carter, Newton Blick, Glyn Houston, Michael Wynne
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