Seventy Deadly Pills (1963)

7.5/10 63 min Drama Family

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.

Cast

Len Jones

Phil Streaker

Sally Thomsett

Gerty

Kenneth Colley

Covent Garden porter

Timothy Bateson

Goldstone

Ian Fleming

Doctor

Warren Mitchell

Lofty

Ronald Leigh-Hunt

Sergeant

Leslie Dwyer

Police Constable Robinson

Roberta Woolley

Nurse

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