"Foyle's War" Fifty Ships (2003)

Director:

Giles Foster

Writer:

Anthony Horowitz (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Foyle's War" (2002)

Original Air Date:

16 November 2003 (Season 2, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

September 1940: DCS Foyle investigates the murder of Richard Hunter whose body is found on a nearby beach...

Plot Keywords:

Looting | Murder | Collaboration | Racket | Spy

Cast

Michael Kitchen	...	DCS Foyle
Anthony Howell	...	Sgt. Paul Milner
Honeysuckle Weeks	...	Samantha Stewart
Jonathan Coy	...	Hans Maier
Tom Georgeson	...	Richard Hunter
Henry Goodman	...	Howard Paige
Clive Merrison	...	Dr. Alan Redmond
Nicholas Le Prevost	...	Arthur Lewes
Amanda Root	...	Elizabeth Lewes
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Geoffrey Chater	...	Professor Phillips
Jack Chissick	...	Jack Dunning
Bryan Dick	...	Kenneth Hunter
Richard Durden	...	Colonel Letwin
Janine Duvitski	...	Eve Redmond
Paul Foster	...	Colin Morton
Geoffrey Freshwater	...	Sgt. Eric Rivers
Mali Harries	...	Jane Milner
Guy Henry	...	John Bishop
Rebecca Johnson	...	Jenny Wentworth
Steven O'Donnell	...	Henry Jamieson
Kathryn Pogson	...	Valery Hunter
John Rake	...	Air Raid Warden
Sam Redford	...	Tom Fairweather
John Rowe	...	Commander Simmons
Marlene Sidaway	...	Mrs. Esther Harrison
Tim Treloar	...	Bob Fraser

Trivia:

"Moonlight Sonata" Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The date is September, 1940. Foyle goes into the local newspaper to get copies of photos taken at the site of a Nazi bombing. The editor says the photos have not been cleared yet by the government. As he is talking, and then after Foyle walks out, the editor is chain smoking, lighting one cigarette from another. Later, the American Howard Paige is also smoking. In all cases, they are filter cigarettes, which weren't in wide use until 1954. Throughout WWII, American soldiers were taught to "field strip" (shred) cigarettes so the enemy wouldn't know they were American cigarettes on the ground. They could do that with Lucky Strikes and Pall Malls, but filter tip butts are indestructible.

Quotes:

[Jamieson, a volunteer firefighter, has been caught stealing valuables from bombed-out houses]
Henry Jamieson: I haven't got anything to say to you.
DCS Christopher Foyle: Well, that doesn't surprise me. You know, I sometimes wonder why I do this job. And then I come across someone like you. I mean, we're living in such evil times, when the whole world seems to be sinking into some sort of mire. And as if Hitler wasn't enough, we got the likes of you, who capitalize on other people's misery, who hurt them, make things even worse for them when they're at their weakest. And it's with the likes of you that this...

Soundtrack:

Moonlight Sonata