Directed by Basil Dearden | Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Bernard Lee, Peggy Evans, Jack Warner

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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