Firstly the location of Johnoes house was in North End Road Golders Green Green.It stars one of my favourite actors in Nigel Patrick and villains in Darren Nesbitt.I saw the film at the Odeon Temple Fortune on 24th November 1964.I would make the point that so many detectives at Scotland Yard at the time were corrupt they didn't need to frame them.I enjoyed the film then and now with reservations as I felt ,and still do that the climax is very contrived.By the performances of the dog and cat were noteworthy!

Surprisingly tough, given that this was made in 1963, and surprisingly good British crime movie directed by the usually reliable Ken Annakin. It's based on the novel, "Death of a Snout" and it's about Police Inspector Nigel Patrick's attempt to find out who killed his number one informant. It has an excellent cast that includes Margaret Whiting, Darren Nesbitt, Frank Finlay, Roy Kinnear, Harry Andrews and Colin Blakely and Annakin makes great use of his London locations. It may not surface very often these days but it's certainly worth seeing.

THE INFORMERS is a top-tier British crime drama that takes a straightforward plot about a group of bank robbers and invests it with depth, deep characterisation, and at times an epic kind of feel. These heist stories were ten-a-penny during the era, but this film's tapestry is vast and a whole slew of British character actors, old and young, make up the tableau. Nigel Patrick is excellent as the dogged detective on the case while Harry Andrews plays his exasperated superior. The bad guys are helmed by a stand-out Frank Finley, making an impression at a young age, and an incredibly slimy Derren Nesbitt at his most weaselly. This is undoubtedly an actor's film, with small but important parts for the likes of George Sewell, Roy Kinnear, Colin Blakely, Allan Cuthbertson, Michael Coles, and many more besides. Margaret Whiting is a particular stand-out as the sympathetic femme fatale but nobody puts a foot wrong here and the experience is thrilling, dramatic, and thoroughly suspenseful.

Surprisingly, one of the best tough-cop performances in a British film came from Nigel Patrick in "The Informers," an actor who has considerably more strength in this kind of role than all those witty, urbane characters in which he has found himself would seem to suggest...Patrick played a detective-sergeant with a genuine London accent and showed a fierceness towards a gang of crooks which at the time (1963) was highly unusual in British pictures… It could be that the characterization was in a direct line from his Soho racketeer in "The Noose ( 1948), his cold-hearted spymaster in "Count Five and Die,"( 1958) and his police detective in "Sapphire" (1959). Somewhere inside Nigel Patrick, it seems, there is a Sterling Hayden trying to break out