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The Boys in Blue (1982)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1982
Running Times: 89 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
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CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: A Greg Smith / Val Guest Production for the Elstree
(Production) Company in association with M.A.M. (Film Productions) Ltd
/ Apollo Leisure Group
Production Executive: Gerry Wheatley
Executive Producers: Laurie Mansfield, Stuart Littlewood
Producer: Greg Smith
Associate Producer: Roy Goddard
SCRIPT
Script: Val Guest
Additional Material: Sidney Green
Story: Ask a Policeman by Sidney Gilliat
DIRECTION
Director: Val Guest
Assistant Director: Tony Hopkins
2nd Assistant Director: Frazer Copp
3rd Assistant Director: Peter Wisdon
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jack Atcheler
Camera Operator: Brian Elvin
Camera Focus: Miki Thomas
Gaffer: Steve Birtles
Camera Grip: Peter Wood
Stills: Joe Pearce
Labs: Rank Film Laboratories Ltd
Cameras and Lighting Equipment: Samuelsons Film Services Ltd
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Peter Weatherley
Assistant Editor: Andy Stears
MUSIC
Music: Ed Welch
Song: Geoff Gill, Bobby Brill, Pete Tyrell (The Boys in Blue)
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Laurie Clarkson
Sound Mixer: Ken Scrivener
Boom Operator: John Stevenson
Sound Editor: Mike Hopkins
Assistant Sound Editor: Geoff R. Brown
Re-Recorded: Anvil Studio, Denham
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Stella Morris
Hair Supervisor: Daphne Martin
Wardrobe Supervisor: Joyce Stoneman
VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles: National Screen
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Geoffrey Tozer
Set Dresser: Denise Exshaw
Production Buyer: Percy Godbold
Property Master: Doug Purdy
Construction Manager: Bob Cross
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Josie Fulford
Production Accountant: Dianne Twiddy
Assistant to Accountant: Sylvia Ellwood
Production Assistant: Marlene Butland
Producer's Assistant: Gail Glutters
Publicity Director: Derek Robbins
PR Consultants: Dennis Davidson Associates
Unit Transport: Peter Glazier, Brian Estabrook, Roy Werllerns
Technical Advisor: Bob Holliday
LOCATIONS
Studio: EMI Studios Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Location Manager: John Downes
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Producers wish to thank the following for their invaluable help
and assistance in the making of this motion picture: Austin Rover Group;
The Weld Estate and the people of Oflulworth Cove; the people of Erton
Bray; Mill Accessories Group; Watford Central Library; Watford and Bushey
Art Society; Robert Holmes and George Bartram
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Ken Shepherd
CASTING
Casting Director: Valerie Van Ost
CAST
Tommy Cannon (Sergeant Cannon)
Bobby Ball (P.C. Ball)
Suzanne Danielle (Kim)
Roy Kinnear (Lloyd)
Eric Sykes (Chief Constable)
Jack Douglas (Chief Superintendent)
Edward Judd (Hilling)
Jon Pertwee (coast guard)
Arthur English (man on motorbike)
Billy Burden (herdsman)
Nigel Lambert (estate agent)
Eric Francis (Fred the postman)
Ken Barker (Chief Superintendent's driver)
Richard Borthwick (customs officer)
John D. Collins (customs officer)
Su Douglas (Hilling's secretary)
Laurence Harrington (police radio operator)
Richard Hunter (High Street policeman)
Peter Rutherford (heavy man)
Rosemary Williams (W.P.C. radio operator)
Tommy Wright (fisherman)
SUMMARY
The quiet country lives of policemen Cannon and
Ball are shattered when their station is threatened with closure due
to a lack of local crime. So they try to cook up some business by faking
crimes. They steal a painting from a local businessman and accidentally
get involved with a gang of genuine art thieves. Somewhere along the
way, they also encounter a UFO.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Appalling junk that waste's an awful lot of talent
in the horribly misguided belief that this TV comedy duo's film career
ever had a hope in hell of getting off the ground. Painfully bad in
almost every respect and only included here because of the brief scene
with a UFO.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Rank Organisation
Video Distributor: Rank Video
LINKS
REMAKE OF
Ask a Policeman (1939)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
TV Times 31 May - 6 June 1986 pp.31, 34
review, credits
Video World March 1984 p.20
review
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
police; ufos; remakes; paintings; criminals
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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