Liverpool Waterfont

Waterfront – 1950 - Robert Newton



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.


Cast

Patrick Troughton: Sam
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