A widow (Ursula Jeans) with two children (Jean Simmons and Jill Freud) gets money from wealthy people by running a hard luck scam with her children. After the oldest child leaves home and gets a job, she meets up with a rich man who takes a fancy to her and her daughters complicate the situation. The film examines relationships, families, child development and manipulative personalities. Ursula Jeans is good as the cold, hard hearted, manipulative mother and is well supported by Jean Simmons as the naive and innocent younger daughter who was not taught morality and Jill Freud as the sweet and innocent younger daughter. This is a good post-war British melodrama.
4/5 
Ursula Jeans
Jean Simmons
Cecil Parker
Susan Hampshire