When the Bough Breaks

When the Bough Breaks (DVD) (*)

$30.99

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1947 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Lawrence Huntington

Written By:
Muriel Box
Sydney Box

Actors:
Patricia Roc ..... Lily Bates
Rosamund John ..... Frances Norman
Bill Owen ..... Bill Collins
Brenda Bruce ..... Ruby Chapman
Patrick Holt ..... Robert Norman
Cavan Malone ..... Jimmy
Leslie Dwyer ..... George
Sonia Holm ..... Nurse
Torin Thatcher ..... Adams
Catherine Lacey ..... Almoner
Edith Sharpe ..... Matron
Muriel George ..... 1st Landlady
Ada Reeve ..... 2nd Landlady
Joan Haythorne ..... Miss Brent
Edie Martin ..... Customer

Synopsis:

A young working mother, Lily Bates (Patricia Roc), is nursing her new-born baby in a London maternity hospital when a police inspector informs her that 'her husband' has been arrested as a bigamist. Despite living in a society that frowns upon single mothers, Lily decides to overcome these prejudices and raise Jimmy by herself. But when Lily falls ill she has to leave Jimmy in the care of Frances (Rosamund John), a nursery worker, and her husband Robert (Patrick Holt). As Lily returns to health she reluctantly decides to let the Normans bring up Jimmy as their own. Time passes, Lily moves away, and then falls in love and marries a shopkeeper called Bill (Bill Owen). But the memory of her son Jimmy plays on Lily's mind, and when it threatens to disrupt their new-found happiness, Bill and Lily decide to search for Jimmy and reclaim him as their own...

When the Bough Breaks is a 1947 film by Gainsborough Pictures, J. Arthur Rank and Sydney Box Productions. It is an adaptation of an original story-line by Herbert Victor on adoption and the competing ties of one child's birth and foster family.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 07 June, 2011.