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It Could Happen to Anybody

198454mMovieDramaTV Movie

"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.

DirectorLaurence Moody
WriterHugh McManus
ProducerRobert McIntosh

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Cast · Directed by Laurence Moody

AS
Ann Scott-Jones
Jean MacLeod
JB
Joseph Brady
Jim McLeod
WM
William McBain
John McLeod
JM
Joe Mullaney
Willy McLeod
SO
Samuel Ovens
Hughie McLeod
JC
Jennifer Carey
Moira MacLeod
IS
Irene Sunters
Big Bessie
IM
Ian McNicol
Pluke
FW
Frank Wylie
DS Brady
JDJake D'Arcy
Jake D'Arcy
DC Newman
DKDoreen Keogh
Doreen Keogh
Sister Patricia
RDRon Donachie
Ron Donachie
Big Lick

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It Could Happen to Anybody hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around October 2, 1984. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.