Seventy Deadly Pills
1963
63 minutes
Overview
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.
Top Cast
Gareth Robinson
Brian
Len Jones
Phil Streaker
Robert Ferguson
Harry
Sally Thomsett
Gerty
Linda Hansen
Nellie
Ronnie Johnson
Dickie Goodwin
Kenneth Colley
Covent Garden porter
Barbara Ashcroft
Mrs. Briggs
Basil Beale
Mr. Briggs
Timothy Bateson
Goldstone
Ian Fleming
Doctor
Warren Mitchell
Lofty
Edward Cast
Police Constable Weaver
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Sergeant
Jack Howlett
Inspector
Ken Howard
Mobile Constable
Leslie Dwyer
Police Constable Robinson
William Forbes
Titch
Myrtle Reed
Mrs. Goodwin
Roberta Woolley
Nurse
George Roderick
Greengrocer
Joe Ritchie
Milkman
Harry Fowler
Covent Garden porter