
When the Bough Breaks
1971 • 1h 15m • Drama, TV Movie
10.0(1 votes)
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.
- Director
- James Ferman
- Writers
- Tony Parker
- Status
- Released
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Top Cast

Hannah Gordon
Margaret Ashdown
Cheryl Kennedy
Sheila Gosse

Neil McCarthy
Eddie Gosse

Donald Burton
Dr. Cunningham

Edith MacArthur
Audrey Campbell
Griffith Davies
George Standish
Mark Parr
Timmy Gosse

Ysanne Churchman
Sister Thompson

Ruth Kettlewell
Sister Potts
Margaret Elliot
Receptionist

Andrew Neil
Alec Foster
Jumoke Debayo
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