Both Sides of the Law

Original title: Street Corner

1953
Approved
1h 34m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

254

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Crime Drama

A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Pe... Read allA pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifting, but let off lightly. She has a small child,... Read allA pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifting, but let off lightly. She has a small child, an often-absent husband and mother-in-law trouble. To compound that, she takes up with a ... Read all

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Trivia
The screening of this movie at the BFI Southbank on September 29, 2010 was introduced by Peggy Cummins.

Quotes
Desk Sgt. Bates: You're not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence. Do you wish to say anything?
Prostitute at Police Station: Do I wish to say anything - I certainly do. You know me don't you? You seen me down here plenty of times before, 'aven't you?
Desk Sgt. Bates: Yes, plenty.
Prostitute at Police Station: I've never made any trouble before, 'ave I?
Desk Sgt. Bates: No, I don't think you 'ave.
Prostitute at Police Station: Alright then. Well next time you wanna pinch me, you send one of the boys along, see? I don't mind being knocked off occasionally - that's your job and you've got to do it, but I'm sick and tired of being knocked off by coppers in skirts. It's bad for business! If I'm going to be pinched, I wanna be pinched by a man, understand?

Connections
Featured in It Came from Hollywood (1982)

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7/10

Street Justice review

Entertaining tale that focuses more on the criminal underworld than the female police officers it professes to be about. It nimbly follows a number of plot strands, some of which interweave, and some which pretty much stand alone. Terence Morgan and Michael Medwin dress like American gangsters as they ensnare flighty but naive young mum Peggy Cummings in their criminal lifestyle, while a host of familiar faces provide colourful support.