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Seventy Deadly Pills (1963)

Seventy Deadly Pills (1963)

Drama Family
Release Date: 1963, January 1
Directors: Pat Jackson
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Children's Film Foundation (CFF), Derick Williams Productions
Cast: Ian Fleming, Timothy Bateson, Ken Howard, Kenneth Colley, Harry Fowler, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Ronnie Johnson, Leslie Dwyer, Len Jones, Sally Thomsett, Joe Ritchie, Warren Mitchell

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.