The Blue Parrot

Premise

Cast

• Dermot Walsh as Bob Herrick
• Jacqueline Hill as Maureen Maguire
• Ballard Berkeley as Superintendent Chester
• June Ashley as Gloria
• Richard Pearson as "Quinny"
• Ferdy Mayne as Stevens
• Victor Lucas as Rocks Owen
• Edwin Richfield as Taps Campelli
• John Le Mesurier as Henry Carson
• Arthur Rigby as Charlie
• Valerie White as Eva West
• Diane Watts as Carla

  Critical reception

• Radio Times wrote, "Dermot Walsh does his best with some lacklustre material, and John Le Mesurier turns up in a supporting slot, but there's little else here to recommend."
• Britmovie wrote, "The Blue Parrot is a middling b-movie thriller set against the post-war backdrop of spivs, black-marketeers, pawnbrokers and raincoat detectives."
• Sky Movies noted, "a real treat for connoisseurs of British B-movies of the post-war decade...Complete with such familiar elements of the genre as the raincoated detective and settings at a nightclub and at Scotland Yard. Ferdy Mayne is on hand, as he was so often in these films, to supply smooth Continental villainy, and the film's major surprise lies in the casting of John Le Mesurier as the nightclub's shady owner."