Harpur and Iles: Protection

Harpur and Iles: Protection

92 mins | Jan. 1, 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.

Harpur and Iles: Protection

92 mins | Jan. 1, 1997

Harpur and Iles: Protection
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.
Producers
Original title Harpur and Iles: Protection
Directors Celia Willett, Pam Humphreys, Nicholas Wade, Jim Hill, Sean Guest
Writers Dom Shaw, James Tucker, Ceri Meyrick

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

Jâms Thomas

as DC Rob Cotton

Steven Elliot

as DC Brian Avery

Cara Konig

as Sara Iles

Victoria Williams

as Megan Harpur

Phil Harries

as DC Leo Peters

James Coombes

as Jack Lamb

Sara McGaughey

as Madeleine Church

Jeff Diamond

as Ivor Wright

Rhodri Hugh

as Vernon King

Philip Howe

as Dennis

James Westaway

as Reg Carboni

Vikki Meakin

as Hazel Harpur

Anna Coulbeck

as Jill Harpur

Christine Morris

as TV Reporter

Steve Elias

as Hotel Receptionist

Simon Ludders

as Bank Manager

Mike Eastman

as Police Sergeant