Nightbeat (1947)
1h 31m
Running Time
December 22, 1947Release Date
Plot.
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Maxwell Reed
Felix Fenton
Anne Crawford
Julie Kendall
Ronald Howard
Andy Kendall
Christine Norden
Jackie
Fred Groves
PC Kendall
Hector Ross
Don Brady
Fed Groves
PC Kendall
Harold Huth
Director
Sid James
Nixon (as Sidney James)
Guy Morgan
Writer
T.J. Morrison
Writer
T. J. Morrison
Writer
Nicholas Stuart
Rocky
Roland Pertwee
Writer
Frederick Leister
Magistrate
Michael Medwin
Rocky
Robert Westerby
Writer
Benjamin Frankel
Composer
Cecil Bevan
Clerk of Court
Robert Cawdron
Police Recruit
Cyril Chamberlain
PC Rix
Michael Hordern
Police Training Officer
John Martell
Romeo
Robert Raglan
Detective Sergeant
Philip Stainton
Sgt. Slack
H Victor Weske
Tough in Pub
Ben Williams
Pub Landlord
Freddie Francis
Camera Operator
Hugh Perceval
Production Manager
Václav Vích
Director of Photography
W. Percy Day
Special Effects
Ned Mann
Special Effects
Hubert Clifford
Music Director
Grace Garland
Editor
Percy Hoskins
Technical Advisor
Dorrie Hamilton
Makeup Artist
Ferdinand Bellan
Art Direction
Alan Allen
Sound Recordist
John Bremer
Assistant Director
Betty Forster
Continuity
Doris Cummings
Hairdresser
William Sweeney
Sound Supervisor
Details.
Wiki.
Night Beat is a 1947 British Brit noir crime thriller drama film directed by Harold Huth and starring Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, Ronald Howard, Hector Ross, Christine Norden and Sid James. Following the Second World War, the two comrades go their separate ways; one joins the Metropolitan Police while the other begins a police career but becomes a racketeer in post-war London. Sky Movies described the film as a "British thriller that examines a challenging issue of its times: the problems encountered by servicemen when trying to adjust to civilian life."