Akenfield
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.
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Top Cast
Stanley Baxter
Blacksmith
Ronald Blythe
The Vicar
Ethel Branton
Mrs. Quantrill
Lyn Brooks
Charlotte Rouse
Garrow Shand
Tom Rouse
Peggy Cole
Dulcie Rouse
Barbara Tilney
Jean Quantrill
Ida Page
Aunt Ida
Ted Dedman
Ted
Mollie Dedman
Mollie
Charlie Cornish
Charlie
Charlie Whiting
Charlie
Robin Buckingham
Robin
Alan Wright
Young Tom Rouse
Mary Hammond
Young Dulcie Rouse
F.O. Staddon
The Minister
Bob Wilson
Farmer
Reg Hall
Policeman
Peter Tuddenham
Old Tom (voiceover)
Clifford Arbon
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