IMDb
6.8 /10
3k votes


Crime · Thriller · Action · 1950 · 1h 24min
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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IMDb
6.8 /10
3k votes
Rotten Tomatoes
The tomato isn't ripe
Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
6.6 /10
63 votes
Letterboxd
6.7 /10
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Weighted average
6.7/10