Danielle Cable: Eyewitness (2003) (TV)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Adrian Shergold

Writers:

Kate Brooke (writer)
Terry Winsor (writer)

Release Date:

14 April 2003 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Road Rage | Separation | Psychological Thriller | Trial

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Joanne Frogatt	...	Danielle Cable (as Joanne Froggatt)
Bill Paterson	...	DI Nick Biddiss
Lindsey Coulson	...	Ann Cable
Jamie Foreman	...	Keith Phelan
Nigel Terry	...	Kenneth Noye
Eamon Boland	...	Ken Cameron
Alex Hassell	...	Stephen Cameron
Tilly Vosburgh	...	Toni Cameron
Ross Boatman	...	Policeman
Kate Williams	...	Neighbour
Jennifer Hennessy	...	DS Libby Marks
Mark Letheren	...	DC Jason Wheeler
Tim Woodward	...	Jeff Mundy
Paul Jesson	...	Brian Boyce
Stephanie Leonidas	...	Kerry
Kim Taylforth	...	Brenda Noye
Andrew Hinton-Brown	...	Andy
Chris Geere	...	Josh Harman
Michael McKell	...	Terry Cable
Connor McIntyre	...	Steve Allan
Caroline Pegg	...	Sylvia Chapman
Phil Kavanagh	...	Paul Scobie
Vincent John	...	Dave John
James Rawlinson	...	Tom Adams
Rosalind March	...	CPS Lawyer
Shane O'Connor	...	Michael Cable
Hannah Yelland	...	Policewoman
Tim Evans	...	Gareth
Michelle Luther	...	Gillian
Daniel Ainsleigh	...	Lawyer
Jack Elliott	...	Judge Latham
Anton Lesser	...	Batten
Frances Shergold	...	Girl in Red Coat

Directed by
Adrian Shergold

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Kate Brooke		writer
Terry Winsor		writer

Produced by
Sue Calverley	....	line producer
Francis Hopkinson	....	producer
Jeff Pope	....	executive producer
Terry Winsor	....	co-executive producer

Original Music by
Nick Bicât

Cinematography by
David Odd

Film Editing by
Tony Cranstoun

Casting by
Corinne Rodriguez

Production Design by
Candida Otton

Art Direction by
Andrea Coathupe

Costume Design by
Aideen Morgan

Makeup Department
Bea Millas	....	hair stylist
Bea Millas	....	makeup artist
Lesley Noble	....	makeup artist
Roseann Samuel	....	hair designer
Roseann Samuel	....	makeup designer

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lucy Brown	....	third assistant director
Matthew Gallagher	....	second assistant director
Jamie Hall	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Peta Adderley	....	graphic designer
Dave Beer	....	stand-by prophand (as Dave Bere)
Steve Clark	....	dressing prophand
Matthew Edgar	....	stand-by carpenter
Matthew Edgar	....	stand-by painter
Gill Farr	....	production buyer
Joe Malone	....	property master
Lucy McDonald	....	assistant art director
Ray O'Donnell	....	dressing prophand
Matt Wyles	....	stand-by prophand

Sound Department
Alun Banks	....	sound maintenance
Philip Barnes	....	dubbing editor (as Phil Barnes)
Colin Cooper	....	foley recordist
Nathan Duncan	....	sound assistant trainee
Nigel Edwards	....	dubbing mixer
Les Honess	....	sound recordist
Luis Antonio Landrau	....	boom operator
Tom O'Pray	....	dubbing editor

Stunts
Dani Biernat	....	stunt arranger
Dani Biernat	....	stunts
Gareth Milne	....	stunt coordinator
Peter Pedrero	....	assistant stunt coordinator (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
David Bell	....	camera person
Nicky George	....	second assistant camera
Gary Nolan	....	best boy
Darren O'Leary	....	electrician
Jim Philpott	....	assistant grip
Tony Sankey	....	grip
Robert Shacklady	....	daily focus puller
Tony Slater-Ling	....	second camera operator
Colin Townsend	....	electrician
Martyn Welland	....	electrician (as Martin Welland)
Jimmy Wilson	....	gaffer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Bruno de Santa	....	wardrobe assistant
Steve Paciello	....	wardrobe supervisor

Editorial Department
Kevin Horsewood	....	colorist
Andrew Mitchell	....	on-line editor

Transportation Department
Ben Dillon	....	action vehicle coordinator

Other crew
Inderpreet Bahia	....	trainee: FT2
Kerry Bates	....	accounting assistant
Sam Breckman	....	location manager
Ian Brown	....	advisor
Andrew Dolden	....	advisor
Nathan Duncan	....	trainee: FT2
Kathryn Gregory	....	floor runner
Marigo Kehoe	....	head of production
Chris Moore	....	assistant location manager
Rebecca Nazareth	....	production secretary
Adrian O'Brien	....	production accountant
Holly Palin	....	unit publicist
Dee Taylor	....	script supervisor
Sarah Turner	....	production assistant
Amanda Wilkie	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Granada Television

Distributors

• Independent Television (ITV)

Other Companies

• Monkey Productions S.L.  production facilities: Spain

Also Known As:

Eyewitness: The Danielle Cable Story (UK)

Runtime:

UK:120 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

Granada Television

Trivia:

'Joanne Froggatt', the actress who plays Danielle Cable in the drama, actually met with the real life Danielle Cable in a secret location with two bodyguards protecting Danielle from saying anything which might lead to her being found.

Brilliant real-life hunt for master-criminal

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

This is an utterly fantastic and gripping, yet tragically real-life story of what happened to Danielle Cable and her fiancé Stephen Cameron in a so-called road-rage incident, at Junction 3 of the M25 (at the Swanley/M20 interchange), about 15 miles south-east of London, in 1996. The story was a sensation in the national media for many weeks and the incident seemed to be symptomatic of the rising violence in society. However, it wasn't all it seemed at first.

Not long into this film you realize that it's also concerned with far more sinister matters, namely the insidious presence (or absense, in Spain, as it turns out) of the evil Kenneth Noye, sadistic real-life master-criminal of Britain, formerly acquitted of the charge of murdering a trespasser in the garden of his Sevenoaks home in 1985 (it was really an undercover policeman). Strangely, that earlier incident reminds me of the infamous Tony Martin, the Norfolk farmer who murdered an intruder in 1999.

This brilliant Adrian Shergold film has all of the classic iconography of London/South East crime and gangsterism - the fake identity Land Rover car; the epic and foreboding Dartford Bridge on the skyline and the badlands around the estuary; the M25 orbital motorway; and the ugly, crude Kent and London accent (probably the worst and most vile in Britain). The film is similar in some ways to Essex Boys - the real-life story of drug killings north of the river - which also featured a Land Rover and, indeed, criminals that were directly connected by funding to Kenneth Noye, who was probably on his way to Essex when the murder in this film took place. Who knows?

The film has some great police detection work and features the quest to identify and arrest Noye. Joanne Frogatt is absolutey sensational as the traumatized, young yet stern Danielle Cable who witnessed everything but wants justice. She later has to go under the auspices of the police witness protection progamme with accompanying relocation, hair-dying and stuff, what one can only imagine must be a shattering experience, particularly at such a young age (21). Ironically, however, the actress Frogatt has an uncanny real-life resemblance to the former Danielle Cable.