When the Bough Breaks (movie)
- Production country: GB
- Producer: James Ferman
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Release date: 5/6/1971
- Run time: 75 min.
Movie description
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.
