Crossroads to Crime

Crossroads to Crime is a 1960 British crime film, the first and only to be directed by television producer Gerry Anderson, and also the only featurelength film to be made by his production company, AP Films. Known for Thunderbirds and his other Supermarionation TV series of the 1950s and 1960s, which were mostly science fiction and featured marionette puppet characters, Anderson accepted an offer from distributors AngloAmalgamated to shoot a onehour, lowbudget B movie when no TV network could be found to distribute Supercar. The first of Andersons productions to use live actors, Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable Anthony Oliver who, working alone, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hijackers.

While on foot patrol, Police Constable Don Ross Anthony Oliver chances upon a gang of lorry hijackers operating from the back of a transport caf. After seeing Diamond George Murcell and Johnny David Graham drive off in a car with the manageress, Connie Williams Miriam Karlin, apparently being held hostage in the back seat, Ross jumps onto and clings to the vehicles side however, he is quickly thrown into the road, suffering a head injury. Pretending to have come across the disorientated officer purely by chance, Diamond and Johnny drop Ross off at his home. Later, Williams is brought before the hijackers wealthy ringleader, Miles Ferdy Mayne, who warns her not to betray the gang to the authorities.Despite strong evidence linking the gang to a spate of vehicle thefts along the A1 road, Ross is unable to persuade his superior, Sergeant Pearson Arthur Rigby, to investigate the caf. He therefore pursues the matter on his own, confronting Diamond with his knowledge and forcing the gangster to bribe him in exchange for his silence. When Pearson learns of Ross private investigation, he threatens the officers job, causing tension between Ross and his wife Joan Patricia Heneghan. ........

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