About
Phil Davis‘s 1995 undercover-cop drama set in the world of a fictional East End firm called the Shadwell Town Dogs (a thinly veiled hybrid of West Ham and Millwall). Reece Dinsdale plays the undercover officer who finds himself increasingly seduced by the lifestyle he was sent to dismantle.
Cast
- Reece Dinsdale, Richard Graham, Perry Fenwick
Cast crossovers with ROTF
- Phil Davis (the director) goes on to play David Hexell in Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance (2023), completing a 28-year arc from hooligan-film auteur to ROTF franchise actor.
Why it matters
I.D. was the first major British hooligan film of the 1990s and the bridge between Alan Clarke’s The Firm (1989) and the post-Football Factory boom of the 2000s. A vital piece of the canon Carlton Leach‘s story sits within.