Waterfront

Robert Newton - Peter McCabe
Kathleen Harrison - Mrs. McCabe
Avis Scott - Nora
Susan Shaw - Connie
Richard Burton - Ben Satterthwaite
Kenneth Griffith - Maurice Bruno
Robin Netcher - George Alexander
Olive Sloane - Mrs. Gibson
James Hayter - Ship's Captain

Adapted from the novel by John Brophy, this kitchen-sink melodrama is set amongst the slums of Liverpool's docklands.

McCabe (Robert Newton), a hard-drinking sailor, abandons his pregnant young wife (Kathleen Harrison) and two children in favour of a life at sea. Fourteen years later he returns to Liverpool, and owing to a grudge with the ships engineers, whom he kills in a drunken rage, he finds himself in prison. His wife visits him in jail and introduces him to the child he’s never seen.