| Director | Joan Littlewood |
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Cockney sailor Charlie comes home from a two-year voyage to find his house in East London demolished and his wife Maggie missing. She is in fact now living with bus-driver Bert and has a new baby – whose parentage is in doubt. At first, Charlie's friends and family will not tell him where Maggie is, because he is known to have a foul temper, but he hears gossip she has been living with another man. She eventually meets him and they have an uncomfortable conversation. Later, after a confrontation with Bert, Maggie and Charlie leave together, still bickering.