Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Platicsco
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Anoushka Slater
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Leofwine_draca
A CASE FOR PC 49 is the second of the radio adaptations from Hammer Films. Hugh Latimer is gone, to be replaced by the instantly irritating Brian Reece who originated the PC 49 role on BBC radio. Unfortunately he plays the character as a buffoon and is thus impossible to take seriously. A shame, because the low-key plotting is quite interesting and incorporates a femme fatale, a con man, murder, an ex-convict, and some petty thieves. There are strong supporting roles for Michaels Balfour and Ripper, two of the most familiar faces in British film of the 1950s, and Christine Norden gives a good turn as the wicked woman in a role that would later be played by the likes of Diana Dors. The film itself is middling and slow to begin with, but it does end on a thrilling high.
boblipton
Fashion model Christine Norden gets a threatening letter from an old boyfriend, so Reece gets sent in to guard her in plain clothes and witnesses his death .... or does he? Reece's girlfriend, Joy Shelton, has her doubts, and pursues the case, and opens a can of worms.For the first half of the movie, it seems like it's half silly and half stupid, but there are enough bits to let the viewer know that something else is going on, and there's a pretty good twist two-thirds of the way through. Although PC 49 is a kind-hearted lummox, and clearly incompetent to be more than a beat bobby, Miss Shelton makes a pretty good tec at the end. The final confrontation also has some fine noirish cinematography by Walter J. Harvey, It's never more than a second feature, but it's a satisfying example, with lots of plot and good camera-work -- although whoever chose the stock music didn't think too hard about the choices.
hwg1957-102-265704
Based on a BBC radio series and made by Hammer Films it tells of PC 49 (actual name Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby!) who gets involved with solving a murder and a robbery assisted by his girl friend. It was the second PC 49 film and is tolerable but not very exciting though it does have a good climax in a brewery. Brian Reece as PC 49 and Joy Shelton as his fiancée Joan Carr are adequate but they are well supported by welcome character actors like Campbell Singer, Michael Balfour and Michael Ripper. An ordinary film from the busy director Francis Searle,
mprstephenson-634-180449
When I was a youngster, 'PC 49', along with 'Dick Barton, Special Agent',all the 'Paul Temple' series, were almost compulsory listening to almost everyone in the country. As per usual, the BBC, along with almost everything else worth saving destroyed the recordings. How many of the radio comedy shows of the 40s and 50s remain,( 'Variety Bandbox', 'Up the Pole', 'Take it from Here', Eric Barker, 'Just Fancy' remain, and how much Max Miller material is still around? Nowadays,hardly anything is worth saving, so naturally, this modern tripe will still be available in 100 years time! No-one will want to listen to it, as we will have ' moved on' by that time.Anyone at the BBC on more than ' national minimum wage' is overpaid!
