All Coppers Are... (1972)

Interesting facts

All Coppers Are... is a 1972 British drama film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Martin Potter, Julia Foster and Nicky Henson. The screenplay was by Allan Prior.

Production

Peter Rodgers produced the Carry On series for the Rank Organisation and made an arrangement to produce other films for them "thrillers and romantic subjects".

The original title was All Coppers Are Bastards. Producer George H. Brown said "Our picture is 48 hours in a policeman's life – the mosaic of people and events with which he deals, climaxing in the kind of challenge any PC on the beat alone may have to face. And who better to write it than Allan Prior?" (Prior was a writer on the TV series Z Cars and Softly Softly.) It was Prior's first feature film.

"The majority of coppers are still working class lads," said Prior. "In this film we try to show that they are not of the class to have affairs but they might have a bit on the side."

The technical adviser on the film was ex-Detective Chief Superintendent Ray Dagg, who said "this seems to me to be the first film to really portray with authenticity what a policeman is like."

Martin Potter was then best known for appearing in Fellini's Satyricon (1969). The other male lead was played by Nicky Henson, who said of the film "you could almost describe it as a sort of 1971 Blue Lamp (1950) although some people may get the wrong idea."

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