An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
Leo McKern ... Horace Rumpole Joyce Heron ... Hilda Rumpole Noel Willman ... Mr. Justice Bates David Yelland ... Nick Rumpole Herbert Norville ... Ossie Gladstone - The Defendant Artro Morris ... Mr. Winter George Sweeney ... Jo John Byron ... George Vernon Dobtcheff ... Magnus Piecan Edwin Brown ... Detective Inspector Arthur Paul Greenhalgh ... Rev. Eldred Pickersgill Peter Spraggon ... Prison Officer Tommy Wright ... Man in Cell Sarah Thomas ... Grace Eric Hillyard ... Court Usher Olga Lowe ... Barmaid / Waitress Richard Wardale ... Young Barrister John Beardmore ... Court Clerk Douglas Auchterlonie ... Jury Jonathan Keays ... Jury Doris Kitts ... Jury Fran Pomeroy ... Jury Lionel Wheeler ... Jury Martin Kemp ... Lad