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    Violent Playground (1958)

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    Featuring one of several police characters Stanley Baker played in the late 50s/early 60s, Violent Playground fuses a crime story with a social-realist tale of delinquent youth.

    Baker gives a nuanced performance as a macho cop transferred from criminal investigation to youth liaison with Liverpool’s street gangs and, in particular, one gang led by teen hooligan Johnny Murphy (David McCallum).

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    At first viewing his new job as demeaning, his work and budding romance with Murphy’s sister (Anne Heywood) sees him gradually adopt a more sophisticated and humane approach to policing.

    The only genuine Scouser prominent in the cast is 15-year-old Fred Fowell, a future Merseybeat entertainer who became television funnyman Freddie Starr (pictured at right).

    Detective Sergeant Jack Truman
    Stanley Baker
    Johnny Murphy
    David McCallum
    Cathie Murphy
    Anne Heywood
    Sergeant William Walker
    John Slater
    Priest
    Peter Cushing
    Heaven Evans
    Clifford Evans
    Mary Murphy
    Brona Boland
    Patrick Murphy
    Fergal Boland
    Alexander
    Michael Chow
    Primrose
    Ts’ai Chin
    Slick
    Sean Lynch
    Meg
    Bernice Swanson
    Tommy
    Nosher Powell
    Mrs Catlin
    Sheila Raynor
    Mrs Baker
    Irene Arnold
    Jilly Baker
    Oonagh Quinn
    William
    Keith Crane
    Maureen Owen
    Lynne Roberts

    Director
    Basil Dearden

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