"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.
Directed by Laurence Moody
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Cast
Ann Scott-Jones
Jean MacLeod
Joseph Brady
Jim McLeod
William McBain
John McLeod
Joe Mullaney
Willy McLeod
Samuel Ovens
Hughie McLeod
Jennifer Carey
Moira MacLeod
Irene Sunters
Big Bessie
Ian McNicol
Pluke
Frank Wylie
DS Brady
Jake D'Arcy
DC Newman
Doreen Keogh
Sister Patricia
Ron Donachie
Big Lick
Peter Raffan
Bobby Cannon
Joan Scott
Mrs Cannon
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