Film

Rumpole of the Bailey

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.

Top cast

Leo McKern

Horace Rumpole

Herbert Norville

Ossie Gladstone - the Defendant

Joyce Heron

Hilda Rumpole

David Yelland

Nick Rumpole

Noel Willman

Mr Justice Bates

Artro Morris

Mr Winter

George Sweeney

Vernon Dobtcheff

Magnus Piecan

Peter Spraggon

Prison Officer

John Gorrie

John Mortimer