Sheds just enough light for MURDER
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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Classical in form, grave, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Jack WarnerPC George Dixon
- Jimmy HanleyPC Andy Mitchell
- Dirk BogardeTom Riley
- Robert FlemyngPolice Sgt. Roberts
- Bernard LeeDivisional Detective Inspector Cherry
- Peggy EvansDiana Lewis
- Patric DoonanSpud
- Bruce SetonPC 'Jock' Campbell
- Meredith EdwardsPC 'Taff' Hughes
- Clive MortonPolice Sgt. Brooks
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- Basil DeardenDirector
- T. E. B. ClarkeScreenplay
- Jan ReadWriter
- Ted WillisWriter
- Gordon DinesDirector of Photography
- Peter TannerEditor
- Michael BalconProducer
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