The Birthday Present (The Birthday Present) (1957)

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"Returning from a business trip in Germany, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife’s birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. This is one of those British dramas which are kind of hard to review because what you see is what you get and there are no unexpected twists. The viewer sees within a space of 48 hours how a man's life and his wife's are turn"