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When the Bough Breaks (1971)
Directed by James Ferman
Drama, TV Movie · 1h 15m
NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.
Cast
Hannah Gordon
Margaret Ashdown
C
Cheryl Kennedy
Sheila Gosse
Neil McCarthy
Eddie Gosse
Donald Burton
Dr. Cunningham
Edith MacArthur
Audrey Campbell
G
Griffith Davies
George Standish
M
Mark Parr
Timmy Gosse
Ysanne Churchman
Sister Thompson
Ruth Kettlewell
Sister Potts
M
Margaret Elliot
Receptionist
Andrew Neil
Alec Foster
J
Jumoke Debayo
Nurse
Crew
- Director
- James Ferman
- Writer
- Tony Parker
- Producer
- Irene Shubik
Details
- Release date
- 1971-05-06
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English