P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

The Glass Key
1942
6.6/10

Indemnity
2022
6.7/10

The Quiller Memorandum
1966
5.9/10

The Mirror Crack'd
1980
6.1/10

Lady in the Lake
1946
6.1/10

Nightfall
1956
6.9/10

M
1951
6.4/10

Chief of Station
2024
6.1/10

The Deadly Affair
1967
6.3/10

Odd Man Out
1947
7.3/10

On Dangerous Ground
1951
6.6/10

The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
7.0/10

The Damned Don't Cry
1950
7.0/10

Black Angel
1946
6.1/10

The Perfect Weapon
1991
6.2/10

Pickup on South Street
1953
7.4/10

You Only Live Once
1937
7.1/10

No Name on the Bullet
1959
6.6/10

The Web
1947
7.1/10

Hollow Triumph
1948
6.6/10
Angel Face
1953
7.091/10