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Film / 1997
Harpur and Iles: Protection
Directed by
Jim Hill
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Hywel BennettACC Desmond Iles
Aneirin HughesDet. Supt. Colin Harpur
Jim CarterTenderness Mellick
Dafydd HywelDet. Supt. Hubert Scott
Patrick RobinsonDCI Francis Garland
Di BotcherJane Mellick
Brian HibbardAncient Dave
Ian Puleston-DaviesRick the Intelligent
Peter-Hugo DalyMilton Bain
Louise Breckon-RichardsWDC Wendy James
Liam JamesGraham Mellick
Ken DruryACC Adrian Bundy
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Jâms ThomasDC Rob Cotton
Steven ElliotDC Brian Avery
Cara KonigSara Iles
Victoria WilliamsMegan Harpur
Phil HarriesDC Leo Peters
James CoombesJack Lamb
Sara McGaugheyMadeleine Church
Jeff DiamondIvor Wright
Rhodri HughVernon King
Philip HoweDennis
James WestawayReg Carboni
Vikki MeakinHazel Harpur
Anna CoulbeckJill Harpur
Christine MorrisTV Reporter
Steve EliasHotel Receptionist
Simon LuddersBank Manager
Mike EastmanPolice Sergeant
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