When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks — Plot

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.

• Release date
• May 6, 1971
• Runtime
• 75 min
• Genres
• Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• James Ferman

When the Bough Breaks — Cast

Hannah Gordon Margaret Ashdown

C

Cheryl Kennedy Sheila Gosse Neil McCarthy Eddie Gosse Donald Burton Dr. Cunningham

E

Edith MacArthur Audrey Campbell

G

Griffith Davies George Standish

M

Mark Parr Timmy Gosse Ysanne Churchman Sister Thompson