crossroads crime crossroads crime british crime film directed television producer feature length film production company known series 1950s 1960s science fiction featured puppet characters anderson accepted offer distributors shoot hour low budget movie network found distribute anderson productions use live actors crossroads crime investigations police constable working confronts brings gang vehicle filmed mainly location england june film cast includes number actors appear later anderson productions score composed members production staff director photography editor continue association anderson box office disappointment crossroads crime attracted negative critical opinion release november praised source fair thriller criticism directed quality writing editing set design low budget film broadcast british end brief theatrical run released dvd plot foot patrol police constable chances gang operating transport café seeing johnny drive car apparently held hostage seat ross jumps vehicle quickly thrown road suffering head injury pretending come officer purely chance diamond johnny drop ross home later williams brought wealthy miles warns gang authorities despite strong evidence linking gang vehicle road ross unable persuade superior investigate café pursues matter confronting diamond knowledge forcing gangster bribe exchange silence pearson learns ross private investigation threatens officer job causing tension ross wife joan ross continues gather evidence capture shipment cigarettes worth gang prepare raid target haul ross joins operation aim exposing miles having uncovered truth ross actions diamond pulls gun officer chases underneath café wounding ross bullets diamond eventually corners shot dead johnny undercover detective successfully gang johnny informs ross authorities aware miles location rest gang soon ross returns life ordinary beat constable production following success approached work broadcaster rejected plans new television series ultimately known distributing films carry series helped commission responding positively pilot episode produced low budget movies short running times increase british content output desperate project founders keen establish film director anderson agreed title contract low budget equivalent writer peter sellers thriller let crime drama man wrote script joke mentioned film dialogue young men consider tune series soundtrack searching records play transport café casting impressed performance west end production murder mystery anderson cast actor leading role police constable appears undercover agent johnny starred episode series private investigator anderson directed number cast contributed later anderson productions diamond provided voices professor series graham voiced characters anderson remembers miles occasionally script scene oliver café mounted times repeatedly oliver changing arrangement scene result actor face hidden camera cast based tough guy appearance advertisement strand cigarettes doubled editor second unit director stunt sequence gang member harry jumps filming filming conducted weeks june location shooting use films studio doubling gang warehouse café road main hideout woods points road surrey briefly filming occasion production fallen schedule night filming inside café run morning crew attached black windows block dawn sunlight allow shoot finish number production staff including director photography continue employed anderson future wife performed uncredited role continuity supervisor maiden filming completed anderson wife divorced remarried post production recorded musical score hours june music accompanying opening credits recycled episode white line episode robot freighter mystery captain scarlet episode released soundtrack international classic themes biography gray suggested instrumental character soundtrack emulated later anderson series secure family friendly certificate dubbed bloody replaced addition film accessible american audiences references british slang term pound sterling changed post production certified film july distribution tagline november theatrical release prize death price 1960s film incorporated wallace mysteries movie series distributed edited new opening credits crossroads crime transmitted british 1960s print film owned screened film television commemorate anderson career film making crossroads crime released home video format region dvd published network distributing dvd version film introduced newer wallace presents credits originals provided extra feature included scenes film remembering crossroads crime featuring interviews editor actor classified film moderate violence reception poor commercial showing box office critical reception crossroads crime remained consistently negative anderson called possibly worst film considers awful levy similarly unimpressed offered anderson commissions promotional campaign successor company century released said earlier film said better commented hardly ranks best efforts contemporary review monthly film bulletin positive quick mark modest little thriller soon routine format efficient convincing stronger praise came october issue commended crossroads crime free adding film moral tender domestic encourage feminine interest climax writers anderson official biography describe film saving grace consider gray music subject matter commenting innovative combination brass electric guitar possibly intended evoke contemporary sounds fell wide mark counts crossroads crime summed compromised settings convoluted screenplay budget writer filmed history future notes remembered describing thin story tedious affair criticising editing producing finished version little rough edges suggests little attention crossroads crime receives fact produce highly successful
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