Seventy Deadly Pills

Seventy Deadly Pills

Drama, Family | Jan. 1, 1963

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.

Seventy Deadly Pills

Drama, Family | Jan. 1, 1963

Seventy Deadly Pills
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.
Producers Children's Film Foundation (CFF), Derick Williams Productions
Original title Seventy Deadly Pills
Directors Tom Walls Jr., Doreen Dearnaley, Pat Jackson
Writers Frank Wells, Pat Jackson

Cast

Gareth Robinson

as Brian

Len Jones

as Phil Streaker

Robert Ferguson

as Harry

Sally Thomsett

as Gerty

Linda Hansen

as Nellie

Ronnie Johnson

as Dickie Goodwin

Kenneth Colley

as Covent Garden porter

Barbara Ashcroft

as Mrs. Briggs

Basil Beale

as Mr. Briggs

Timothy Bateson

as Goldstone

Ian Fleming

as Doctor

Warren Mitchell

as Lofty

Edward Cast

as Police Constable Weaver

Ronald Leigh-Hunt

as Sergeant

Jack Howlett

as Inspector

Ken Howard

as Mobile Constable

Leslie Dwyer

as Police Constable Robinson

William Forbes

as Titch

Myrtle Reed

as Mrs. Goodwin

Roberta Woolley

as Nurse

George Roderick

as Greengrocer

Joe Ritchie

as Milkman

Harry Fowler

as Covent Garden porter