91 minutes
3/22/1980
Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an accident scene), two 11-year-old boys - the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike - arrange a staged knife fight outside a football stadium with the aid of a bag of stage blood and a real blade.
Derrick O'Connor
as Detective Ritchie
Gary Holton
as Ken
Richard Thomas
as Leo Turner
Peter Clark
as Mike Simmonds
Gwyneth Strong
as Jan, Ken's Girlfriend
Caroline Embling
as Susan, Leo's Sister
Jack Douglas
as Senior Police Officer
Billy Colvill
as Williams
P.H. Moriarty
as Police 1
Richard Hope
as Police 2
Niall Padden
as Police 3
John Mulcahy
as Police 4
Terry Paris
as Police 5
Neil Cunningham
as School Masters 1
George Costigan
as School Masters 2
Stewart Harwood
as School's Security Guard
Tammi Jacobs
as School 1
Daniel Peacock
as School 2
Paul Mari
as School 3
Mel Smith
as Disco Doorman
C.P. Lee
as Club Manager
Jimmy Hibbert
as Disco 3
Kim Taylforth
as Disco 4
Nula Conwell
as Ken's Gang 1
Madeleine Church
as Ken's Gang 2
Pete Lee-Wilson
as Ken's Gang 3 (as Peter Wilson)
Gary Olsen
as Ken's Gang 4
Jesse Birdsall
as Ken's Gang 5
Roger Lloyd Pack
as Hospital Doctor
Brenda Fricker
as Nurse
June Watson
as Nurse
Colin Campbell
as Conductor
Julian Hough
as Reporter
Geraldine James
as Ritchie's Wife
Richard Beckinsale
as Detective Ritchie (uncredited; Died before filming completed)
Jane Gurnett
as Girl at Police Station (uncredited)