The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
Acting
Geoffrey Keen's sweaty desperation as the baker
Direction
Peter Graham Scott squeezes dread from flour and yeast
Director
Peter Graham Scott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in just three weeks on a shoestring budget, this was originally the B-side to a forgettable crime double bill.
A perfect time capsule of 1950s British anxiety about working-class respectability—note how the bakery's 'cleanliness' is debated as much as the poison itself.
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