Overview

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.

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Cast

Owen Teale

John O'Brien

Sean Bean

Dominic O'Brien

Clare Holman

Mary Llewellyn

Billie Whitelaw

Beatrice Llewellyn

Ian Bannen

Peter Bracken

Jane Horrocks

Christine Bracken

Mark Mulholland

Fr. O'Malley

Leslie Schofield

Shane O'Brien

Frank Windsor

James Llewellyn

Barbara Marten

Hannah Kelly

Mark Mulholland

Father O'Malley

Berwick Kaler

Joe Kelly