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Seventy Deadly Pills

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Seventy Deadly Pills

6.0

1h 3m

1963

Synopsis

A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.

Director

Pat Jackson

DramaFamily

Cast & Crew

Gareth Robinson

as Brian

Len Jones

Len Jones

as Phil Streaker

Robert Ferguson

as Harry

Sally Thomsett

Sally Thomsett

as Gerty

Linda Hansen

as Nellie

Ronnie Johnson

as Dickie Goodwin

Kenneth Colley

Kenneth Colley

as Covent Garden porter

Barbara Ashcroft

as Mrs. Briggs

Basil Beale

as Mr. Briggs

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