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    Hell Is a City (1960)

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    Escaped criminal Don Starling (American actor John Crawford) returns to his hometown of Manchester to seek out the loot from a previous robbery.

    Inspector Harry Martineau (Stanley Baker) is waiting for the man he shared childhood and wartime experiences with – before eventually sending him to prison for 14 years – to show his hand.

    Crawford gathers his old gang around him and plans the robbery of £4,000 from Cecily (Lois Daine), a young girl bank messenger. Unfortunately, the young girl is murdered during the botched robbery (the money is marked with green dye) and Martineau is on the case.

    The pair fight out their vendetta in the grimy streets, slag heaps and forgotten gutters of the underprivileged parts of industrial Manchester.

    Involved on the fringes are barmaid Lucky (Vanda Godsell) who has bedroom eyes for the inspector; bookie Gus Hawkins (Donald Pleasence) who has a chronic cold and an unfaithful wife, Chloe (Billie Whitelaw) who has counted Don Starling amongst her extra-marital wanderings; used furniture salesman – and crooked fence – Furnisher Steele (Joseph Tomelty); his beautiful deaf and dumb daughter, Silver (Sarah Branch), who is innocently caught up in the crossfire of crime; and Mr Hartley (Warren Mitchell in a small part), the travelling salesman who discovers the dead girl on the moors.

    Filmed in the inimitable style of the British documentary, the story is deliberately filmed in black and white in actual Mancunian locations to create the realism this first-rate thriller from Hammer Films achieved.

    Inspector Harry Martineau
    Stanley Baker
    Don Starling
    John Crawford
    Gus Hawkins
    Donald Pleasence
    Chloe Hawkins
    Billie Whitelaw
    Julia Martineau
    Maxine Audley
    Furnisher Steele
    Joseph Tomelty
    Silver Steele
    Sarah Branch
    Doug Savage
    George A. Cooper
    Devery
    Geoffrey Frederick
    Lucky Lusk
    Vanda Godsell
    Clogger Roach
    Charles Houston
    Tawny Jakes
    Joby Blanshard
    Laurie Lovett
    Charles Morgan
    Bert Darwin
    Peter Madden
    Bill Bragg
    Dickie Owen
    Cecily
    Lois Daine
    Mr Hartley
    Warren Mitchell
    Sam
    Alister Williamson

    Director
    Val Guest

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