London based petty crook, Eddie Cass agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop off address Eddie opens the package and finds a woman’s severed head in a hatbox. He panics and dumps it in the River Thames. Returning home Cass is kidnapped by the mysterious Eldridge and his heavies who inform Eddie that he has been framed for the murder.
Denis Lawson , Lindsay Duncan , George Baker , Simon Callow , Norman Beaton , James Warwick , Don Henderson , Larrington Walker , Leonie Mellinger , Ernest Clark
BBC
