When the Bough Breaks (1971)

10.0/10 • 75 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

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

Neil McCarthy

Eddie Gosse

Donald Burton

Dr. Cunningham

Ysanne Churchman

Sister Thompson

Ruth Kettlewell

Sister Potts

Andrew Neil

Alec Foster

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