Bernard Cribbins

Bill Maynard

Joss Ackland

Bernard Lee

John Leyton

Maureen Lipman

Patsy Rowlands

Colin Baker

David Auker

Marianne Stone

Frank Windsor

Cindy O'Callaghan

Derek Bond

Avril Angers

Ken Jones

Jeremy Sinden

Peter Bland

Lucy Aston

Pam St. Clement

Eric Francis

Sam Dastor

Diana King

Betty Romaine

Richard Hunter

Charles Pemberton

John Rogan

Pauline Delaney

Barbar Bhatti

Mike Savage

Pearl Hackney

Norman Chappell

Joe Ritchie

Bob Sutherland

Lucy Griffiths

Sydney Bromley

Gordon Rollings

Roy Stewart

Andy Bradford

Frank Jarvis

Frank Bevis

Frank Watts

Bill Lenny

Eileen Garstka

Geoffrey Tozer

Denise Exshaw

Eddie Knight

Daphne Martin

Wilfred Eades

Ken Baker

Gerry Toomey

Frank Davies

Doug Purdy

Laurie Clarkson

Alfred Cox

Colin Wood

Neil Binney

Steve Birtles

Susan Delfont

Joyce Stoneman

Doris Martin

Gerald C. Wheatley

Val Guest

Leslie Thomas

Ed Welch

Crime

Comedy

TV Movie

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

Inner Circle Films

ITC Entertainment

United Kingdom

Accident-prone cop Cribbins is assigned to find a long-time criminal thought to have returned to the neighborhood. His investigations lead him to looking into a disappearance of a teenage girl 15 years before that has never properly pursued. He uncovers the true story, despite being beaten repeatedly by a host of hoodlums. Detailed story offers funnyman Cribbins a rare and mostly straight leading role. Lipman scores as a frisky local lass. This was just about the last directing job for veteran Val Guest and has a solid cast of British character actors.

CinemaSerf

Though it does have the odd comedic line or two, this is the only time I recall Bernard Cribbins ever trying to tackle something that required him to speak the word "pants" in anything like a sexual context. He plays a detective constable who is assigned a tough criminal case but soon finds himself embroiled in a fifteen year old cold one involving the disappearance of a young girl. His nickname is "Dangerous" and he spends much of the next two hours - at no small risk to himself - trying to piece together what did happen to that young girl (as well as trying to nail his official quarry too). Bill Maynard - again more noted for his comedy parts - works quite well as his pal "Mod" and there is an additional smattering of familiar faces across the quite enjoyable and characterful mystery adventure. It's a bit too long, maybe we could lose twenty minutes of establishment scenes at the top of the film, but this is quite a fun drama that I rather surprisingly enjoyed.

English

Dangerous Davies