Direct Line established high levels of recall among consumers. In September 2014, the brand worked with Saatchi and Saatchi to relaunch its advertising, using Hollywood actor Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolfe, a Mafia style 'fixer'. The company had one million customers after eight years. The company expanded with a series of new offshoots in the 1990s. In 1995, a Spanish offshoot, Linea Direct, started offering motor insurance in Spain. They expanded into travel insurance in 1996, pet insurance in 1997, and Direct Line Breakdown started offering breakdown insurance in 1998. Their non general insurance products umbrella Direct Line Financial services launched their
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf "Los Angeles Times" said Robinson's performance was "filled with skill and nuance" but the film "broke your heart by being a cop out of what it might have been." The Old Man Who Cried Wolf The Old Man Who Cried Wolf is a 1970 American made-for-television thriller film directed by Walter Grauman and starring Edward G. Robinson, Martin Balsam and Diane Baker. It originally aired as the "ABC Movie of the Week" on October 13, 1970. Robinson portrays an elderly man who witnesses the murder of a friend. Robinson described it as "a most rewarding experience, one which I thoroughly