Dead Easy

A caring mum turns careless child poisoner in this melodramatic safety warning courtesy of Slough Borough Council.

"Take this mother - she doesn't look like a poisoner - but she is!" Dangers lurk in every corner of the medicine cabinet, cleaning cupboard and garden shed in this colourful 1960s domestic safety film. With its shades of Hitchcock and a filmic accolade from the British Medical Association, the film is an unusual - and unusually effective - contribution to the lesser-known genre of the local authority funded public information film.