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Crossroads to Crime, the Glossary

Crossroads to Crime is a 1960 British crime film produced and directed by Gerry Anderson and distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated (AA).^[1]

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1960 directorial debut films
1960s gang films
1960s police procedural films
AP Films
British gangster films
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
Films shot in Berkshire

A1 road (Great Britain)

The A1, also known as the Great North Road, is the longest numbered road in the United Kingdom, at.

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A4 road (England)

The A4 is a major road in England from Central London to Avonmouth via Heathrow Airport, Reading, Bath and Bristol.

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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

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Anglo-Amalgamated

Anglo-Amalgamated Productions was a British film production company, run by Nat Cohen and Stuart Levy, which operated from 1945 until roughly 1971 (after which it was absorbed into EMI Films).

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Anthony Oliver

Anthony Oliver (4 July 1922 – November 1995) was a Welsh film, television and stage actor.

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AP Films

AP Films or APF (renamed Century 21 Productions in 1966) was a British independent film production company of the 1950s until the early 1970s.

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Arthur Rigby (actor)

Arthur Rigby (born Arthur Turner; 27 September 1900 – 25 April 1971) was an English actor and writer.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Barry Gray

Barry Gray (born John Livesey Eccles; 18 July 1908 – 26 April 1984) was a British musician and composer best known for his collaborations with television and film producer Gerry Anderson.

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BBC Books

BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Consumer Publishing and BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division.

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Beat (police)

In police terminology, a beat is the territory that a police officer is assigned to patrol.

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Bloody

Bloody, as an adjective or adverb, is an expletive attributive commonly used in British English, Irish English, and Australian English; it is also present in Canadian English, Indian English, Malaysian/Singaporean English, Hawaiian English, South African English, and a number of other Commonwealth of nations.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Burnham Beeches

Burnham Beeches is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest situated west of Farnham Common in the village of Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

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Cafe (British)

In Britain, a cafe or café, also known colloquially as a caff or greasy spoon, is a small eatery typically specialising in fried foods or home-cooked meals.

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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often shortened to Captain Scarlet, is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 Productions for distributor ITC Entertainment.

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Crime film

Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.

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David Graham (actor)

David Graham (born 11 July 1925) is an English actor.

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Donald Tandy

Donald Eric Tandy (20 December 1918 – 9 May 2014) was an English actor who appeared in over a dozen films (usually in minor or uncredited roles) and several dozens of televisions shows during his career.

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Edgar Wallace Mysteries

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated.

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Fanderson

Fanderson is the official appreciation society for the works of British film and television producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.

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Ferdy Mayne

Ferdy Mayne or Ferdie Mayne (born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel; 11 March 1916 – 30 January 1998) was a German-British stage and screen actor.

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Fireball XL5

Fireball XL5 is a 1960s British children's science-fiction puppet television series about the missions of Fireball XL5, a vessel of the World Space Patrol that polices the cosmos in the year 2062. Crossroads to Crime and Fireball XL5 are aP Films.

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Four Feather Falls

Four Feather Falls is a British children's western television series, the third puppet TV show produced by AP Films (APF) in association with Granada Television. Crossroads to Crime and Four Feather Falls are aP Films.

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George Murcell

Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor.

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Gerry Anderson

Gerald Alexander Anderson (14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist, who is known for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts). Crossroads to Crime and Gerry Anderson are aP Films.

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Harry Towb

Harry Towb (27 July 1925 – 24 July 2009) was an actor from Northern Ireland.

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Hermes Press

Hermes Press is an American publisher of art books, comic books, and comic book reprints.

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History of British film certificates

This article chronicles the history of British film certificates.

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In-joke

An in-joke, also known as an inside joke or a private joke, is a joke with humour that is understandable only to members of an ingroup; that is, people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of shared interest.

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Ingot

An ingot is a piece of relatively pure material, usually metal, that is cast into a shape suitable for further processing.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man.

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John Barry (composer)

John Barry Prendergast (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music.

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John Read (producer)

John Owen Read (14 November 1920 – 13 April 2006) was a British television producer, cinematographer and director.

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Jukebox

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that plays a patron's selection from self-contained media.

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Kinematograph Weekly

Kinematograph Weekly, popularly known as Kine Weekly, was a trade paper catering to the British film industry between 1889 and 1971.

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List of directorial debuts

This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order.

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Maidenhead

Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames.

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Manhunt (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)

"Manhunt" is the fourth episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by their company Century 21 Productions.

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Martin Kane, Private Eye

Martin Kane, Private Eye is an American crime drama radio and television series sponsored by United States Tobacco Company.

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Miriam Karlin

Miriam Karlin (23 June 19253 June 2011) was an English actress whose career lasted for more than 60 years.

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Motor vehicle theft

Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle.

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Nat Cohen

Nat Cohen (23 December 1905 – 10 February 1988)William D. Rubinstein, et al (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, p.171 was a British film producer and executive.

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Never Let Go (1960 film)

Never Let Go (also known as Moment of Truth) is a 1960 British thriller film directed by John Guillermin and starring Richard Todd, Peter Sellers and Elizabeth Sellars. Crossroads to Crime and Never Let Go (1960 film) are 1960 films, 1960s British films, 1960s crime thriller films and British crime thriller films.

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Peter Diamond (actor)

Peter Diamond (10 August 1929 – 27 March 2004) was an English actor who had trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is remembered as a stuntman on television or film.

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Pictureville Cinema

Pictureville Cinema is a cinema auditorium located within the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Reg Hill

Reginald Eric Hill (16 May 1914 – 1999) was an English model-maker, art director, producer, and freelance storyboard artist.

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Script supervisor

A script supervisor (also called continuity supervisor or script) is a member of a film crew who oversees the continuity of the motion picture including wardrobe, props, set dressing, hair, makeup and the actions of the actors during a scene.

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Second unit

Second unit is a discrete team of filmmakers tasked with filming shots or sequences of a production, separate from the main or "first" unit.

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Shepperton

Shepperton is a village in the Spelthorne district, in north Surrey, England, around south west of central London.

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Simon Archer (1956/1957 – September 1993)Archer, Simon; Hearn, Marcus.

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Slough

Slough is a town in Berkshire, England, in the Thames Valley west of central London and north-east of Reading, at the intersection of the M4, M40 and M25 motorways.

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Slough Trading Estate

The Slough Trading Estate, founded in Slough in Buckinghamshire in 1920, was an early business park in Britain.

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Stanley Black

Stanley Black OBE (14 June 1913 – 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist.

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Stephen La Rivière

Stephen La Rivière (born November 1984) is a British film producer, writer and actor based in London.

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Strand (cigarette)

Strand was a British brand of cigarettes which was owned and manufactured by W.D. & H.O. Wills (a now defunct subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco).

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Stuart Levy (producer)

Stuart Levy (30 November 1907 – 3 June 1966) was a British film producer best known for his long association with Nat Cohen with whom he founded and ran Anglo-Amalgamated, making such productions as the Edgar Wallace Mysteries.

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Supercar (TV series)

Supercar is a British children's science fiction television series produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis' AP Films (APF) for Associated Television and ITC Entertainment. Crossroads to Crime and Supercar (TV series) are aP Films.

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Sylvia Anderson

Sylvia Beatrice Anderson (25 March 1927 – 15 March 2016) was an English television and film producer, writer, voice actress and costume designer, best known for her collaborations with Gerry Anderson, her husband between 1960 and 1981.

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Tagline

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Talking Pictures TV

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The Criminal (1960 film)

The Criminal (released in the United States as The Concrete Jungle) is a 1960 British neo-noir crime film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Jill Bennett, and Margit Saad. Crossroads to Crime and the Criminal (1960 film) are 1960 films, 1960s British films and British heist films.

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The Monthly Film Bulletin

The Monthly Film Bulletin was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with Sight & Sound.

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The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie.

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The Unstoppable Man

The Unstoppable Man is a 1960 British second feature crime drama film directed by Terry Bishop and starring Cameron Mitchell, Harry H. Corbett, Marius Goring and Lois Maxwell. Crossroads to Crime and The Unstoppable Man are 1960 films and 1960s British films.

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Thunderbirds (TV series)

Thunderbirds is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) and distributed by ITC Entertainment. Crossroads to Crime and Thunderbirds (TV series) are aP Films.

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Thunderbirds Are Go

Thunderbirds Are Go is a 1966 British science-fiction puppet film based on Thunderbirds, a Supermarionation television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by their company Century 21 Productions. Crossroads to Crime and Thunderbirds Are Go are 1960s British films, films shot in Berkshire and films shot in Buckinghamshire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_to_Crime

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Crossroads to Crime, the Glossary

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See also

1960 directorial debut films

1960s gang films

1960s police procedural films

AP Films

British gangster films

Edgar Wallace Mysteries

Films shot in Berkshire

References