Details

Release year: 1964

Storyline

A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud in Brighton and uncovers a murder.

Top credits

Directors

Jim O'Connolly

Writers

Jim O'Connolly

Cast

Peter Vaughan — Roper
John Carson — Trevor Bayliss
Yvonne Romain — Janet Dexter
Gerald Flood — Graham Turner

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Did you know

• The opening shot of the burning car driving off the cliff and hitting the rocks on its way into the sea was used in TV episode Car in Flames (1962). In Smokescreen, the shot included a brief cutaway of two lovers who witnessed the incident; in the TV episode, the shot was continuous.

• The "smudger" on the pier takes a photograph unasked and says, "Lovely picture for a dollar, Sir?" He isn't talking to an American tourist. In the days before decimalisation "half a dollar" was common English slang for half a crown, two shillings and sixpence or one eighth of a pound sterling. It was much more common to refer to five shillings as "a dollar" than "a crown."