Harvey starred in leading roles for two B-pictures for director Lewis Gilbert at Nettleford Films: "Scarlet Thread" (1951) and "There Is Another Sun" (1951). For Ealing, he made "I Believe in You" (1952), directed by Basil Dearden. According to "Sight and Sound" this performance gave "an indication of Harvey's true metier. While Basil Dearden's direction focused on honest Harry Fowler, it was Harvey's Jordie who supplied an authentic glimpse of pin-table thuggery, his clothes and hairstyle on the cusp between cosh-boy and ted and his manner redolent of a languorous sexuality no amount of National Service could quell."