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Released
1958 · FILM

Law and Disorder

Michael Redgrave with an ingenious hand for disorder ... Robert Morley as the intrepid arm of the law ...

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Runtime
76 min
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Oswald HafenrichterShot by Edward ScaifeScored by Humphrey Searle

Also known as

  • Herzlich willkommen im Kittchende
  • Law & Disorderen
  • Burlemos a la Ley!es
  • L'habit fait le moinefr
  • Benvenuto a Scotland Yard!it

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