Machinegunner (1976)

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Leonard Rossiter stars as Cyril Dugdale, a Bristol-based "machinegunner" (West Country slang for a debt collector) and amateur detective who finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous web of corruption in this dark yet humorous HTV thriller.
Lured by the promise of easy money, Dugdale takes compromising photographs of Jack Bone, a property dealer involved in an adulterous affair, for the mysterious Felicity Mae Ingram; Felicity`s attractiveness also has more than a little to do with Dugdale`s eager co-operation, but he has little understanding of what he is stepping into. When Bone`s hired thugs are dispatched to retrieve the negatives, and then Bone himself is found dead in woodland, Dugdale realises he been drawn into a conspiracy involving a widespread extortion racket.