The Four Just Men (TV series)
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Edgar Wallace |
| Starring |
Dan Dailey Richard Conte Jack Hawkins Vittorio De Sica |
| Theme music composer | Francis Chagrin |
| Composer(s) | Francis Chagrin |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Hannah Fisher |
| Producer(s) |
Sidney Cole Jud Kinberg |
| Cinematography | Ken Hodges Harry Waxman Peter Hennessy Gerald Moss |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Sapphire Films |
| Distributor | Incorporated Television Company |
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| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 35 mm film 4:3 B/W |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | 17 September 1959 – 17 August 1960 |
The Four Just Men was a 1959 television series produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment. It was broadcast for one season of 39 half-hour monochrome episodes.
The series, based on a series of novels by Edgar Wallace including a novel named The Four Just Men, presents the adventures of four men who first meet while Allied soldiers in Italy during the Second World War. The men later reassemble, and decide to fight for justice and against tyranny, using money donated for the purpose by their late commanding officer. They operate from different countries: Jeff Ryder is a professor of law at Columbia University in New York, Tim Collier is an American reporter based in Paris, Ben Manfred is a crusading independent MP who works from London and Ricco Poccari is an Italian hotelier based in Rome. Their reputation as the "Four Just Men" is well known.
The series is unusual in having the four main actors appear alternately (except in the first episode); one or occasionally two makes a brief appearance in each other's episode, usually as using a telephone.
Each character had an assistant:
Guest stars included Judi Dench, Alan Bates, Leonard Sachs, Patrick Troughton, Donald Pleasence, Richard Johnson, Ronald Howard, Basil Dignam, Roger Delgado, Charles Gray, and Frank Thornton who appeared in more roles than anyone else.
At the time Four Just Men was the most ambitious film series yet made for British TV. It was produced by Sapphire Films at Walton Studios, and on location in Britain, France and Italy. None of its four stars had been cast as regulars for a television series before.
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