Open Fire ( UK, 1994) 1, 9

Brilliant British truecrime TV film from 1994, produced by Jeff Pope and Simon Shaps for LWT (London Weekend Television), written and directed by Paul Greengrass, and starring Rupert Graves in one of his careerbest performances. London, 1982. David Martin a provocative, aggressive lockbreaker, jailbreaker, gunfetishist and transvestite is released from prison. By 1983, after gratuitously shooting a police officer during a burglary, he s the UK s mostwanted criminal. The Metropolitan Police s panicstricken pursuit of Martin results in the Met s most notorious wrongman shooting of the 1980s: the Stephen Waldorf case. No copyright infringement intended. I m posting this as a public service (from a 1994 offair video) because it s a crime that this film is unavailable elsewhere (and I m a massive