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    Home»Movies»Movies by Decade»Movies - 1960s»Movies 1960»Crossroads To Crime (1960)
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    Crossroads To Crime (1960)

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    Crossroads To Crime was the live-action feature film directorial debut of Gerry Anderson, the famous creator of Supermarionation as seen in Stingray, Supercar, Thunderbirds, Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet & The Mysterons. Anderson himself went on to retrospectively dismiss the movie as “possibly the worst film ever made”.

    Filmed in and around Slough during the summer of 1960, Crossroads To Crime starred Welsh actor Anthony Oliver as PC Don Ross, a zealous young copper who stumbles upon a gang of crims in the local café, run by Connie Williams (Miriam Karlin), planning the hijacking robbery of a truck carrying £30,000 worth of cigarettes.

    Unable to convince his station boss Sergeant Pearson (Arthur Rigby), Ross sets about some determined (if unethical) solo evidence-gathering by “joining” the gang.

    With a brief running time of 57 minutes, the film was intended as a ‘B’ feature to be shown alongside the main film in cinemas to bump screening times up to three hours.

    PC Don Ross
    Anthony Oliver
    Miles
    Ferdy Mayne
    Diamond
    George Murcell
    Connie Williams
    Miriam Karlin
    Len
    Victor Maddern
    Joan Ross
    Patricia Heneghan
    Sergeant Pearson
    Arthur Rigby
    Johnny
    David Graham
    Paddy
    Harry Towb
    Harry
    Terence Brook
    Phillips
    J. Mark Roberts
    Basher
    Donald Tandy
    Lorry Driver
    Bill Sawyer
    Butler
    Geoffrey Benton
    Escort
    Peter Diamond

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