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
Susannah Bunyan
Tacy Kneale
Ellen Sheean
Larrington Walker
Winston Crooke
Leonie Mellinger
Ernest Clark