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Status
Released
Release
1997
Runtime
1h 32m
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.
29 Cast Members
Hywel Bennett
ACC Desmond Iles
Aneirin Hughes
Det. Supt. Colin Harpur
Jim Carter
Tenderness Mellick
Dafydd Hywel
Det. Supt. Hubert Scott
Patrick Robinson
DCI Francis Garland
Di Botcher
Jane Mellick
Brian Hibbard
Ancient Dave
Ian Puleston-Davies
Rick the Intelligent
Peter-Hugo Daly
Milton Bain
Louise Breckon-Richards
WDC Wendy James
Liam James
Graham Mellick
Ken Drury
ACC Adrian Bundy
Jâms Thomas
DC Rob Cotton
Steven Elliot
DC Brian Avery
Cara Konig
Sara Iles
Victoria Williams
Megan Harpur
Phil Harries
DC Leo Peters
James Coombes
Jack Lamb
Sara McGaughey
Madeleine Church
Jeff Diamond
Ivor Wright