Harpur and Iles: Protection (1997)
Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now kidnapped his eleven-year-old son Graham. Senior Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his brilliant, amoral superior ACC Desmond Iles must rescue the boy from the kidnappers before Tenderness takes his revenge in this adaptation of Bill James' novel Protection.
- Date of release
- 1997-01-01
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Director
- Jim Hill
Casting
- Hywel Bennett — ACC Desmond Iles
- Aneirin Hughes — Det. Supt. Colin Harpur
- Jim Carter — Tenderness Mellick
- Dafydd Hywel — Det. Supt. Hubert Scott
- Patrick Robinson — DCI Francis Garland
- Di Botcher — Jane Mellick
- Brian Hibbard — Ancient Dave
- Ian Puleston-Davies — Rick the Intelligent
- Peter-Hugo Daly — Milton Bain
- Louise Breckon-Richards — WDC Wendy James
- Liam James — Graham Mellick
- Ken Drury — ACC Adrian Bundy
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