
When the Bough Breaks
10.01 votes on TMDB1971Movie1h 15m
- Drama
- TV 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 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
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