The Outsider

Directed by Roy Boulting
October 21, 1948    1h 37mDrama
6.883%7.2
Jack Read, a working-class boy, wins a scholarship to a public school as part of a post-World War II experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together. He meets much snobbery along the way as he strives to earn acceptance from his fellow students and some of the teaching staff.

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  • Richard AttenboroughJack Read
  • Sheila SimLynne Hartley
  • Bernard MilesMr. Read / Screenplay
  • Cecil TrouncerLloyd Hartley
  • Joan HicksonMrs. Read
  • Edith SharpeMrs. Hartley
  • Robert FlemyngNigel Lorraine
  • John ForrestFitch
  • Herbert LomasSir James Corfield
  • Brenda HoganLorna Beckett
  • Wally PatchUncle Percy
  • Olive SloaneAunt Mabel
  • Hay PetriePeck
  • Timothy BatesonTracey
  • Kynaston ReevesThe Bishop
  • Anthony NichollsMr. Stringer
  • Clive BaxterGregory
  • Basil CunardBuckton
  • Maureen GlynneBessie
  • Anthony NewleyMiles Minor

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