· United Kingdom · 1997 · 1h 32m

Harpur and Iles: Protection

Director

Cast

Hywel Bennett as ACC Desmond Iles Aneirin Hughes as Det. Supt. Colin Harpur Jim Carter as Tenderness Mellick Dafydd Hywel as Det. Supt. Hubert Scott Patrick Robinson as DCI Francis Garland Di Botcher as Jane Mellick

Crew

John McGlashan — Director of Photography Ian Sutherland — Editor Philip Appleby — Original Music Composer Dom Shaw — Screenplay James Tucker — Novel Jane Dauncey — Producer

Synopsis

Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now kidnapped his eleven-year-old son Graham. Senior Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his brilliant, amoral superior ACC Desmond Iles must rescue the boy from the kidnappers before Tenderness takes his revenge in this adaptation of Bill James' novel Protection.

Key Collaborators

Jim Hill Director John McGlashan Director of Photography Ian Sutherland Editor Philip Appleby Original Music Composer Dom Shaw Screenplay James Tucker Novel Jane Dauncey Producer

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