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Seventy Deadly Pills 1963 Directed by Pat Jackson

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.

Production Country United Kingdom
Language English
Spoken Language English
Release Date 1 January 1963
63 mins
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Len Jones Phil Streaker
Ronnie Johnson Dickie Goodwin
Kenneth Colley Covent Garden porter
Barbara Ashcroft Mrs. Briggs
Basil Beale Mr. Briggs
Timothy Bateson Goldstone
Ian Fleming Doctor
Edward Cast Police Constable Weaver
Jack Howlett Inspector
Ken Howard Mobile Constable
Leslie Dwyer Police Constable Robinson
Myrtle Reed Mrs. Goodwin
George Roderick Greengrocer
Joe Ritchie Milkman
Harry Fowler Covent Garden porter
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