

89 minutes
11/22/1945
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).

Mervyn Johns
as Edward Sutton

Googie Withers
as Pearl Bond

Gordon Jackson
as David Sutton

Garry Marsh
as Joe Bond
Jean Ireland
as Victoria Sutton

Sally Ann Howes
as Peggy Sutton

Mary Merrall
as Ellen Sutton

Catherine Lacey
as Miss Porter

Frederick Piper
as Dr. Pepper
Colin Simpson
as James Sutton
David Walbridge
as Nicholas Sutton
John Carol
as Dan Powell
Pauline Letts
as Louise

Maudie Edwards
as Mrs. Webster

Helen Goss
as Maudie

Don Stannard
as John Bevan
John Owers
Margaret Ritchie

John Ruddock

Ronald Adam

Charles Carson

Valentine Dyall
David Keir