Overview

Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. Sooner than she hoped, her wish comes true—when her husband dies in a mining accident. When Charles Holroyd's body is brought home from the mine, and his wife and mother must wash him and lay him out for his funeral, we see for the first time the other side of the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Holroyd—now, when it's too late.

Top Cast

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Emery Battis

Rigley

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Veronica Castang

Laura

Frank Converse

Blackmore

J

Joyce Ebert

Mrs. Holroyd

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Grandmother

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Vicky Geyer

Minnie Holroyd

Roberta Maxwell

Clara

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Timothy Ousey

Jack Holroyd

Rex Robbins

Holroyd

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William Swetland

Mine manager