Cast
Derrick O'Connor (Detective Ritchie)Gary Holton (Ken)Richard Thomas (Leo Turner)Peter Clark (Mike Simmonds)Gwyneth Strong (Jan, Ken's Girlfriend)Caroline Embling (Susan, Leo's Sister)Jack Douglas (Senior Police Officer)Billy Colvill (Williams)P.H. Moriarty (Police 1)Richard Hope (Police 2)Niall Padden (Police 3)John Mulcahy (Police 4)Terry Paris (Police 5)Neil Cunningham (School Masters 1)George Costigan (School Masters 2)Stewart Harwood (School's Security Guard)Tammy Jacobs (School 1)Daniel Peacock (School 2)
Director
Stephen Frears
Synopsis
The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), the boys arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
