This is well-reviewed here but I want to add my pennyworth anyway.
There are many aspects that make this worth a view. Hawkins is ever-watchable and there are great characters, like the so very curious Welsh garage owner and the garrulous Irish daily help, but what I like most is the portrayal of police work as about method, legwork, a gradual accretion of fact and evidence. This compares to too many modern film and TV police investigations, which rely on either savant-like detectives or the liberal application of bullets.
Black and white really adds to the photography- the city streets, the Welsh hills, the cars and the steam trains puffing at rest in darkened stations...
There are many aspects that make this worth a view. Hawkins is ever-watchable and there are great characters, like the so very curious Welsh garage owner and the garrulous Irish daily help, but what I like most is the portrayal of police work as about method, legwork, a gradual accretion of fact and evidence. This compares to too many modern film and TV police investigations, which rely on either savant-like detectives or the liberal application of bullets.
Black and white really adds to the photography- the city streets, the Welsh hills, the cars and the steam trains puffing at rest in darkened stations...
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