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.
T. E. B. Clarke | Screenplay |
Michael Balcon | Producer |
Gordon Dines | Director of Photography |
Jan Read | Writer |
Basil Dearden | Director |
Ted Willis | Writer |
Jim Morahan | Art Direction |
Anthony Mendleson | Costume Design |
Ernest Irving | Music Director |
Ernest Taylor | Makeup Artist |