“Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974″ (2009)
Andrew Garfield as Eddie Dunford
Directed by: Julian Jarrold
Written By: David Peace (novel), Tony Grisoni (screenplay)
Release: 05 March 2009 (UK)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Co-Stars: David Morrissey, John Henshaw
In 1974, Eddie Dunford, comes home from South England and gets a job as a cub reporter for the Yorkshire Post. A schoolgirl has gone missing, and Eddie suspects it’s one of several crimes dating back six years; the police think not and blame gypsies. Eddie digs; the police stonewall him then two of them beat him after he visits the widowed mother of one of the girls missing for a few years. When a child’s body turns up at a construction site of local building magnate John Dawson, Eddie has another thread to pull. By now, he’s begun an affair with Paula, the widowed mother, and he suspects collusion among Dawson, the police, and his newspaper – but what are they covering up?
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Quotes
Eddie Dunford: Little girl goes missing, the pack salivates. If it bleeds it leads, right? Eddie Dunford, crime correspondent, back home to take the north. Business first. Dad won’t mind waiting.
Eddie Dunford: Do you feel that the police could have done anything more to have helped you?
Paula Garland: Yeah, there’s one thing.
Eddie Dunford: Right, what was that?
Paula Garland: They could have found my daughter.
Trivia
The title of the trilogy, “Red Riding”, derives from two main sources – Yorkshire, the location of the crimes, and Red Riding Hood, the traditional tale. Yorkshire, a county of England, is divided into three sections or ridings. The action takes place in the West Riding. One of the girls who goes missing is wearing a red anorak or hooded jacket, and one of the attackers bears the nickname, Wolf.
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