So said Baby Jane Hudson to her sister Blanche, and baker Geoffrey Keene might as well have said to wife Jane Hylton in this British quota quickie that is very amusing and intense. It indeed deals with rats in the cellar, getting into the baking flour which causes teen to hire an exterminator. The regular one is away on his honeymoon, so they get an alternative who uses cyanide that somehow gets into a look-alike for the baking tins that they use. When the man accidentally consumes some of the poison that he made, Keene and Hylton are questioned by the police, and the wife realizes what happened when she discovers that one of the baking tins she used was his and contain cyanide. They are desperate to get the loaf of bread back that killed him, and of course in doing so, they are covering up the truth which makes them an accessory, not quite to a crime, but to an unfortunate accident where they just should have been honest in the first place.
It's a frantic 24 hours for the baker and his wife, with a well-written script that unfolds in less than an hour. British quota quickies were often very short and seemed more like TV dramas, but this one is rather adult in nature so it makes sense as to why this would be shown as the bottom half of a double bill. It seems very true to life, often comical in spite of the serious nature of the story, and probably not for people who are deathly afraid of rats. You don't see the rats actually die but they're squeal as they devour the cyanide is readily heard. This is very well done because the plot is ingeniously constructed, so the viewer remains intrigued throughout. Even the scene with the woman going under anesthesia before a dentist procedure, unsure if she's eaten the bread, is a well-thought-out detail that leads them to the young women on their way to the beach. Good location footage and photography are a plus.
It's a frantic 24 hours for the baker and his wife, with a well-written script that unfolds in less than an hour. British quota quickies were often very short and seemed more like TV dramas, but this one is rather adult in nature so it makes sense as to why this would be shown as the bottom half of a double bill. It seems very true to life, often comical in spite of the serious nature of the story, and probably not for people who are deathly afraid of rats. You don't see the rats actually die but they're squeal as they devour the cyanide is readily heard. This is very well done because the plot is ingeniously constructed, so the viewer remains intrigued throughout. Even the scene with the woman going under anesthesia before a dentist procedure, unsure if she's eaten the bread, is a well-thought-out detail that leads them to the young women on their way to the beach. Good location footage and photography are a plus.