The Great Train Robbery references are coming thick and fast in the gritty crime serial. Former chemist Josef Tyzack (Alfred Lynch) is on remand, awaiting identification by the policeman he blinded in the caper. He is ingeniously sprung from jail but, not by the robbery gang. It is another group of criminals who simply want to get their hands on his cut. Having undergone wartime deprivation in Czechoslovakia he is immune to the gang's torture, until they grab his wife. For a sixties TV serial this episode is extremely violent and must have caused complaints at the time. The ultimate resolution is even more violent, suggesting that the big boys are not to be messed with. As an aside we find out that Cradock is no angel. He left his wife and child for another woman. Top class TV.
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Dog Eat Dog
Prismark103 April 2024
This is the kind of episode that would give the London ITV franchises a reputation for doing gritty crime dramas.
There is some strong stuff here. Preceding movies such as Get Carter by a few years.
Josef Tyzack (Alfred Lynch) is a Czech emigre. He was once a chemist. Now part of the gang the carried out the gold robbery.
Only he got caught. Slade (Peter Cellier) is a gangster that has a plan to help Tyzack escape from prison. He has an inside man Nelson (Terence Rigby) and contacts in the prison service.
Only Slade is a rival gangster. He wants to free Tyzack so he can get all his share of the money. When Tyzack does not talk, he gets tortured.
When he still does not talk, Slade pulls in his wife. She was not willing to talk to DCS Cradock but Slade's goons might get her to spill the beans.
Meanwhile Cradock is trying to find out just how he managed to escape from prison.
Dog Eat Dog takes a tough cynical view of London gangsters. Opportunistic, amoral, like rats in a sack.
In time a bigger villain decides to teach Slade a lesson. This is grim stuff.
There is some strong stuff here. Preceding movies such as Get Carter by a few years.
Josef Tyzack (Alfred Lynch) is a Czech emigre. He was once a chemist. Now part of the gang the carried out the gold robbery.
Only he got caught. Slade (Peter Cellier) is a gangster that has a plan to help Tyzack escape from prison. He has an inside man Nelson (Terence Rigby) and contacts in the prison service.
Only Slade is a rival gangster. He wants to free Tyzack so he can get all his share of the money. When Tyzack does not talk, he gets tortured.
When he still does not talk, Slade pulls in his wife. She was not willing to talk to DCS Cradock but Slade's goons might get her to spill the beans.
Meanwhile Cradock is trying to find out just how he managed to escape from prison.
Dog Eat Dog takes a tough cynical view of London gangsters. Opportunistic, amoral, like rats in a sack.
In time a bigger villain decides to teach Slade a lesson. This is grim stuff.
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