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Lieutenant Colonel Norman Hyde prepares seven envelopes, each containing an American crime paperback titled The Golden Fleece, one half of each of ten £5-notes & an invitation to a lunch at the Cafe Royal hosted by “Co-Operative Removals Ltd.” He then sends the envelopes to former army officers in desperate or humiliating circumstances. The officers attend the lunch to get the other halves of their £5-notes & show little enthusiasm for the novel. Their interest is piqued when Hyde reveals knowledge of why each officer was discharged from the military. Jack Hawkins as Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Hyde, Nigel Patrick as Major Peter Race, Roger Livesey as Captain “Padre” Mycroft, Richard Attenborough as Lieutenant Edward Lexy, Bryan Forbes as Captain Martin Porthill, Kieron Moore as Captain Stevens, Terence Alexander as Major Rupert Rutland-Smith, Norman Bird as Captain Frank Weaver, Robert Coote as Brigadier “Bunny” Warren, Melissa Stribling as Peggy, who ran a gambling parlour with Race, Nanette Newman as Elizabeth Rutland-Smith, Lydia Sherwood as Hilda, Porthill’s wealthy, older girlfriend, Doris Hare as Molly Weaver, David Lodge as Company Sergeant Major Barnard, Patrick Wymark as Wylie, the customer at Lexy’s repair shop, Gerald Harper as Captain Saunders, the adjutant of the army base, Brian Murray as Private “Chunky” Grogan, Marie Burke as Mrs. Boyle, Mycroft’s landlady, Dinsdale Landen as the boxer in Stevens’ gym, Michael Corcoran as Stevens’ blackmailer, Oliver Reed as a Babes in the Woods chorus boy, Anthony Wager as the switchboard operator at the army base, Patrick Jordan as an army sergeant, Norman Rossington as Staff Sergeant Hall, Bruce Seton as the AA patrolman, Terence Edmond as the young police constable at the warehouse, Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Superintendent Wheatlock ©ITV_plc