When the Bough Breaks (1971)
19711h 15mDramaTV Movie
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 GordonMargaret Ashdown- CCheryl KennedySheila Gosse
Neil McCarthyEddie Gosse
Donald BurtonDr. Cunningham- EEdith MacArthurAudrey Campbell
- GGriffith DaviesGeorge Standish
- MMark ParrTimmy Gosse
Ysanne ChurchmanSister Thompson
Ruth KettlewellSister Potts- MMargaret ElliotReceptionist
Andrew NeilAlec Foster- JJumoke DebayoNurse
- IIsla CameronSwitchboard operator
Crew
- Director
- James Ferman
- Writers
- Tony Parker
- Producers
- Irene Shubik
Details
- Released
- May 6, 1971
- Language
- English
- IMDb
- tt0067978