We're just about at the end of our riveting 90s crime films in the Cracker season and this, rather more gentle, but no less engaging film series gets a welcome repeat. (It was commissioned by ITV after Morse ended.) Created and written by Anthony Horowitz.
In which we're introduced to sharp, undemonstrative, rigidly duty-bound and morally incorruptible Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (played to perfection by Michael Kitchen), his former sergeant (Anthony Howell), now a WW2 recovering patient, and a perky and bright driver, Honeysuckle Weeks, who proves her worth immediately by knocking out a fleeing suspect with a dustbin lid. This is a good opening, actually, in which Foyle is posing as a man seeking to bribe his son clear of service - but in parallel his son actually has been drafted.
That corruption that goes up to the top is an element even in this first one, and you can't help thinking if the treatment of the Jewish refugees is somehow autobiographical to Horowitz's own family.
Loved the murderer's protestations that he is so essential to the shipping war effort that Foyle shouldn't shop him.
Good featured cast of Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, Joanna Kanska, Rosamund Pike, Philip Whitchurch, James McAvoy, Dominic Mafham. Photographed by David Odd.
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