A factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Wessex Film Productions
Dirk Bogarde
Bill Fox
Bonar Colleano
Tommy Possey
Bill Owen
Lag Gibbon
Renée Asherson
Pat
Thora Hird
Ma Fox
James Hayter
Pa Fox
Patric Doonan
Dick
Moira Lister
Dotty Liz
Sidney James
Rowton
Dudley Jones
Taffy
Pauline Jameson
Mrs. Lewis
Cyril Cusack
Duggie
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