Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee, Peggy Evans. Title from sell sheet. Originally released as a motion picture in 1950. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: new audio commentary; location featurette with film historian, Richard Dacre; BBC Radio 3 the essay: British cinema of the 40s.
Summary:
This classic film noir concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. A veteran cop is murdered by small-time delinquents Tom Riley and Spud. Rookie cop Andy Mitchell, who looked up to the veteran policeman as a father figure, embarks on a perilous search to bring his mentor's killers to justice. Shot in a pioneering semi-documentary style by Gordon Dines (Pool of London), the film focuses on ordinary heroes and a new breed of young criminal, hardened by the war years, whose recklessness and violence contrasts with the discipline of the older criminal fraternity.
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