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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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.
Joan Ross
Phillips
