
A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.
Cast

Margaret Lockwood
Nell Gwynne

Jerry Desmonde
Col. Lovelace

Jack McNaughton
Uriah Group

Brian Worth
Tom Pride

Edmund Willard
Oliver Cromwell

Mary Clare
Milady Doverhouse
Alfie Dean
Murdercasket
Anthony Hulme
Charles II

Miles Malleson
Judge Gorebucket

Irene Handl
Lady Agnes

Joan Young
Maggie

Claude Hulbert
Sylvester Clutterbuck

Michael Brennan
Brother Barebones

Peter Bull
Mosspot
Vincent Holman
Lord Doverhouse

John Salew
Smug
Diana Hope
Lady Dolly
June Devon
Maria
Laurence Baskcomb
Lord Bynge
Anne Holland
Lady Bynge
Anne Valery
Hope
Valerie Wynne
Dorothy
Bruce Walker
Lovelace's Servant

Charles Paton
Mine Host
Walter Horsbrugh
Sir Seymour Simon
Ernest Metcalfe
Potman

Richard Dunn
Usher

Francis de Wolff
Soldier
Hector MacGregor
Tower Soldier

Wensley Pithey
Jailer

Alan Adair
Courtier

Edie Martin
Argumentative Old Woman (uncredited)

Patrick Troughton
Executed Man (uncredited)
Sid Field
Sidcup Buttermeadow
Crew

Walter Forde
Director, Producer

Noel Langley
Writer
Alan Jaggs
Editor

Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
Roy Goddard
Assistant Director
Culley Forde
Associate Producer
H. A. R. Thomson
Camera Operator
Maude Spector
Casting
Eleanor Abbey
Costume Design
Vivienne Walker
Hair Supervisor
Tony Sforzini
Makeup Supervisor
Anthony Hearne
Second Unit Director
Eric Wood
Sound Editor
Reg Barnes Heath
Sound Recordist
Desmond Dew
Sound Recordist
Francis Carver
Special Effects
Bryan Langley
Special Effects
Muir Mathieson
Music Director
Lambert Williamson
Music
Tilly Day
Continuity
Frank Bevis
Production Manager

Carmen Dillon
Art Direction
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