Cast of
The Alternative

About The Alternative

  • Released on April 20, 1977

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take leave from her job. Caught between her ex-lover and a colleague who wants to marry her, Melanie must find a solution or an alternative to her problem. When she falls in love with a woman, she questions the value of the traditional value unit.

Full Cast of The Alternative

Wendy Hughes
plays Melanie Hilton

Carla Hoogeveen
plays Linda

Tony Bonner
plays Peter

Alwyn Kurts
plays Doherty

Don Reid
plays Surgeon

Betty Lucas
plays Melanie's Mother

Ken Goodlet
plays Melanie's Father

Mary Mackay
plays Mrs. Millbank

Robert Bruning
plays Photographer (uncredited)

Anne Haddy
plays Helen (uncredited)

Jackie Rees
plays June (uncredited)

Peter Adams
plays Noel Denning


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