Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
Joan Littlewood
Donald Taylor
Stephen Lewis
Joan Littlewood
Stephen Lewis
Mutz Greenbaum
Stanley Black
James Booth
Charlie Gooding
Barbara Windsor
Maggie Gooding
Roy Kinnear
Fred Gooding
Avis Bunnage
Bridgie Gooding
Brian Murphy
Jack
George Sewell
Bert
Barbara Ferris
Nellie Gooding
Griffith Davies
Chunky
Murray Melvin
Georgie
Arthur Mullard
Ted
Peggy Ann Clifford
Ted's Wife
Wally Patch
Watchman
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CinemaSerf
Well it all starts rather inauspiciously with Barbara Windsor singing the Lionel Bart penned title song. Good? Well, no - not very. Thereafter we discover that she ("Maggie") used to be married to "Charlie" (James Booth) who has just returned from being at sea. Thing is, their marital house has been...