Harpur and Iles: Protection (1997)
Underworld boss Bernie 'Tenderness' Mellick is certainly paying a heavy price for maiming Ivor Wright in a firebombing. For Wright's men have now kidnapped his eleven-year-old son Graham. Senior Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his brilliant, amoral superior ACC Desmond Iles must rescue the boy from the kidnappers before Tenderness takes his revenge in this adaptation of Bill James' novel Protection.
- Released
- 1997-01-01
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Jim Hill, Dom Shaw
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Hywel Bennett as ACC Desmond Iles
- Aneirin Hughes as Det. Supt. Colin Harpur
- Jim Carter as Tenderness Mellick
- Dafydd Hywel as Det. Supt. Hubert Scott
- Patrick Robinson as DCI Francis Garland
- Di Botcher as Jane Mellick
- Brian Hibbard as Ancient Dave
- Ian Puleston-Davies as Rick the Intelligent
- Peter-Hugo Daly as Milton Bain
- Louise Breckon-Richards as WDC Wendy James
- Liam James as Graham Mellick
- Ken Drury as ACC Adrian Bundy