Law and Disorder (Original title)
Dates: 1958 (Copyright), 14 July 1958 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Charles Crichton
Synopsis: Son of confidence trickster becomes marshall to the judge who is always sentencing his father. His father tries to prevent the truth of his career becoming known to his son and succeeds with the help of the judge.
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Subject: Deception
Releases
Date: 1958Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 76 mins Length: 6863 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: January 2020Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 73 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Dates: 1958 (Copyright), 14 July 1958 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Charles Crichton
Synopsis: Son of confidence trickster becomes marshall to the judge who is always sentencing his father. His father tries to prevent the truth of his career becoming known to his son and succeeds with the help of the judge.
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Subject: Deception
Releases
Date: 1958Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 76 mins Length: 6863 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: January 2020Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 73 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
(27)
©/Production Company: Hotspur Films, A British Lion Release: British Lion Films, Produced by: Paul Soskin, Co-producer: George Pitcher, Production Manager: Chris Sutton, Assistant Director: Douglas Hermes, Continuity: Phyllis Crocker, Casting: Thelma Graves, Screenplay by: T.E.B. Clarke, Screenplay by: Patrick Campbell, Vivienne Knight, From the novel 'Smugglers' Circuit' by: Denys Roberts, Photographed by: Ted Scaife, Camera Operator: Ray Sturgess, Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter, Art Director: Allan Harris, Make-up: Michael Morris, Hairdresser: Eileen Warwick, Music Composed by: Humphrey Searle, Music Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Reecordist: John Aldred, Sound Recordist: Red Law, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Dubbing Editor: Eileen Daines, Maurice Boubet, Produced at: Associated British Elstree Studios
Cast
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Michael Redgrave (Percy Brand), Robert Morley (Judge Sir Edward Crichton), Ronald Squire (Colonel Masters), George Coulouris ('Bennie' Bensuson), Joan Hickson (Aunt Florence), Lionel Jeffries (Major Proudfoot), Jeremy Burnham (Colin Brand), Harold Goodwin (Blacky), Meredith Edwards (Police Sergeant Bolton), Brenda Bruce (Mary Cooper), David Hutcheson (Freddie Cooper), Michael Trubshawe (Ivan), John Le Mesurier (Sir Humphrey Pomfret), Allan Cuthbertson (police inspector), Reginald Beckwith (Vickery), Mary Kerridge (Lady Crichton), Irene Handl (woman on train), Elizabeth Sellars (Gina Lasalle), Sam Kydd (Shorty), John Hewer (Foxy), John Warwick (police superintendent), Nora Nicholson (Mrs. Cartwright), Anthony Sagar, John Paul (customs officer), Alfred Burke (Willie, the poacher), Michael Brennan (Bert, prison warder), Toke Townley (Sidney Rumpthorne), Arthur Howard (Burrows), John Rudling (man on train), Gerald Cross (Hodgkin), Jerold Wells ([visiting room warder]), Martin Stephens, Lesley Dudley, Paul Cole, Robert Howell, Hennie Scott, Delene Scott, Lynn Williams, Anthony Sadler, Diane Herman, Stratford Johns ([])