| Alastair Sim | Inspector Cockrill |
| Trevor Howard | Dr. Barnes |
| Sally Gray | Nurse Linley |
| Rosamund John | Nurse Sanson |
| Leo Genn | Mr. Eden |
| Judy Campbell | Sister Bates |
| Megs Jenkins | Nurse Woods |
| Moore Marriott | Joseph Higgins |
| Henry Edwards | Mr. Purdy |
| Ronald Adam | Dr. White |
| George Woodbridge | Det.-Sgt. Hendricks |
During a German bombing raid on rural southeast England during World War II, a hospital undergoes heavy shelling. Postman Joseph Higgins dies on the operating table when a bomb explodes in the operating room. But when Sister Marion Bates dies after revealing that this is not the first patient of anesthetist Barney Barnes to die under suspicious circumstances, Police Inspector Cockrill is brought in to investigate.
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