That'll Be the Day (1973)

Directors

Claude Whatham

Cast

David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach, James Booth, Billy Fury, Keith Moon, Verna Harvey, Rosalind Ayres, Brenda Bruce, Robert Lindsay, Beth Morris, Deborah Watling, Kim Braden, Johnny Shannon, Daphne Oxenford

The story

In an urban area in early-1940s England, a young child, Jim MacLaine, lives with his mother Mary and grandfather. His seaman father returns, spends time with him, and works in the family's grocery shop. However, he finds himself unable to settle down, and soon leaves again for good, abandoning his wife and son; Mary continues to run the shop and raise Jim on her own.

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