After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
as Oscar Hopkins
as Lucinda Leplastrier
as Reverend Dennis Hasset
as Hugh Stratton
as Mr. Jeffries
as Mr. Tomasetti
as Theophilus
as Wardley-Fish
as Betty Stratton
as Narrator (voice)
as Elderly Parishoner
as Miss Shaddock
as Percy Smith
as Miriam Chadwick
as Jimmy D'Abbs
as Young Lucinda
as Elizabeth Leplastrier
as Abel Leplastrier
as Young Oscar
as Mrs. Williams
as Fanny Drabble
as College Student
as College Student
as College Student
as George Loxwood
as College Student
as Mr. Ahearn
as Mrs. Ahearn
as Steamer Captain
as Frazer
as Hotel Maid
as Society Gossip
as Society Gossip
as Miss Malcolm
as Charley Fig
as Dog Pit Caller
as Belgian Boy
as Belgian Grandmother
as Belgian Mother
as Glassworks Foreman
as Miss Mary Hasset
as Publican's Wife
