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  1. Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, and Paul Massie. A progressive film for its time, [4] it focuses on racism in London toward immigrants from the West Indies , and explores the "underlying insecurities and fears of ordinary people" about ...

  2. Sapphire: Directed by Basil Dearden. With Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie. The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.

  3. A pregnant college student named Sapphire Robbins (Yvonne Buckingham) is murdered in London's Hampstead Heath. When police superintendent Robert Hazard (Nigel Patrick) discovers that the victim...

  4. Basil Deardens bold, direct police procedural, starring Nigel Patrick as the detective in charge of the investigation, is a devastating look at the way bigotry crosses class divides, and a snapshot of the increasingly interracial culture of England in the late fifties.

  5. The sensational story of a girl who didn't belong. Overview. Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white.

  6. Going on a hunch from the minimal evidence on hand, the lead police investigators, Superintendent Bob Hazard and Inspector Phil Learoyd, discover that she is twenty-one-year-old Sapphire Robbins, a student at the Music Conservatory.

  7. The sensational story of a girl who didnt belong. Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white.