Hell Is a City
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| Directed by | Val Guest |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Screenplay by | Val Guest |
| Based on | Hell Is a City by Maurice Procter |
| Starring | Stanley Baker John Crawford |
| Music by | Stanley Black |
| Cinematography | Arthur Grant |
| Edited by | John Dunsford James Needs |
| Distributed by | Warner-Pathé Distributors |
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Release dates
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10 April 1960 |
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £115,000 |
Hell Is a City is a 1960 film based on the novel by Maurice Procter.[1] Written and directed by Val Guest, it was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and filmed in Manchester.[2] It was partly inspired by the British New Wave films.[3]
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Plot summary
Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder during a street robbery which seems to lead back to the same villain. Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try to track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might.
Cast
- Stanley Baker as Inspector Harry Martineau
- John Crawford as Don Starling
- Donald Pleasence as Gus Hawkins
- Maxine Audley as Julia Martineau
- Billie Whitelaw as Chloe Hawkins
- Joseph Tomelty as Furnisher Steele
- George A. Cooper as Doug Savage
- Geoffrey Frederick as Detective Devery
- Vanda Godsell as Lucky Luske
- Charles Houston as Clogger Roach
- Joby Blanshard as Tawny Jakes
- Charles Morgan as Laurie Lovett
- Peter Madden as Bert Darwin
- Dickie Owen as Bragg
- Lois Daine as Cecily Wainwright
- Warren Mitchell as Commercial Traveller
- Sarah Branch as Silver Steele
- Alister Williamson as Sam
- Russell Napier as Superintendent
- Philip Bond as Headquarters PC (uncredited)
- John Comer as Plainclothes Police Driver (uncredited)
- John Harvey as Fingerprint Officer (uncredited)
- Doris Speed as Older Nursing Sister in Hospital (uncredited)
References
External links
- Hell Is a City at the TCM Movie Database
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Hell Is a City at IMDb
- Hell Is a City at AllMovie
- Hell Is a City at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- Hell Is a City at BritMovie
- Levenshulm: Hell is a City File - website on the town with a page dedicated to the film and book on which it is based
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