The Dock Brief (play)

Mortimer wrote "I wanted to say something about the lawyer's almost pathetic dependence on the criminal classes, without whom he would be unemployed, and I wanted to find a criminal who would be sorrier for his luckless advocate than he was for himself.

"[1] Mortimer enjoyed writing the play for actors "at a new level of reality, one that was two feet above the ground.

[5] Following on from the success of the radio adaptation, the BBC produced a version for television.

[9] The play was popular; it did not have a long run but it launched Mortimer as a playwright and led to offers to write screenplays.

The play was turned into a feature film in 1962 starring Peter Sellers.