Hell Is A City (DVD)

Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 1960 / Parental Guidance / Actors: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie ... more

Hell Is A City (DVD) ... Whitelaw, Donald Pleasence ... / DVD released 2005-04-04 at Cinema Club / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Black & White, PAL, Widescreen

Newest Review: ... Set and filmed in Manchester, at a time when the north was becoming fashionable, and featuring some quite salty language ... more

... for the day ('bastard', 'bloody'), this must have been pretty shocking at the time it was made. Loveless marriages, casual adultery, illicit working class gambling, strong hints of police brutality... this is potent stuff. Only a slightly mawkish romance between Martineau's young sidekick and a pretty deaf girl feels wrong, but it doesn't have enough screen time to ruin things. The city is used very well as a backdrop for all this (the film is in black and white). There's a great rooftop chase, and I'm sure people wh...more

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	Hell Is A City [DVD] [1959] Release Date: 2005 - 04 - 04, Rating Parental Guidance, Last Update 23.12.2009 05:48	£ 5.75

Hell Is A City [DVD] [1959]
Release Date: 2005 - 04 - 04, Rating Parental Guidance,

Last Update 23.12.2009 05:48

£ 5.75

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Hell Is A City (DVD): From dives to dames... From cops to killers... (875 words)
by - written on 08/10/09 (Very useful, 52 readings)
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A review of the Cinema Club DVD, which sells for about £7 on amazon. This is a gritty British crime film from 1959, made by Hammer in Manchester before they settled into churning out horror movies in Berkshire. It's often described as a British film noir, but that feels like wishful thinking - it doesn't have either the look or the feel of noir, a genre that really belongs to America. This has a feel that's unique to British films, and can be seen as a kind of mid-point between Odd Man Out and Get Carter. An escaped robber, Don Starling, robs a bookies. Things go a bit wrong, and he ends up murdering a girl. Inspector Martineau, a cop trapped in a ... Read the complete review

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