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The Bloody Brood
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Wikipedia article
'The Bloody Brood' is a 1959 Canadian thriller film directed by Julian Roffman.
Premise
A man begins to investigate on his own the death of his brother, who died from eating a hamburger laced with ground glass. With the police case stalled because of ineptness, the man's own investigation leads him toward a beatnik hang-out frequented by Nico (Peter Falk), a shady character who supplies drugs to the patrons and philosophizes about the ills of the world.
Cast
Production
The production interiors were lensed at the Community Theatre, on Woodbine Avenue, in Toronto, a cinema that had been earlier retrofitted for use as a TV studio after 1955. Ralph Foster and Julian Roffman founded Meridian Studios in 1954.https://worldradiohistory.com/CANADA/Archive-Broadcaster-Canada/60s/60/BCC-1960-01-21.pdf
Reception
Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film two out of four stars, calling it "[A] laughable, thoroughly cynical depiction of the Beat Generation."
References
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