When the Bough Breaks

Name: When the Bough Breaks
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1971
Duration: 75 min
Cast: Hannah Gordon, Cheryl Kennedy, Neil McCarthy, Donald Burton, Edith MacArthur

1971

1h 15min

Drama

TV Movie

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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.