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Billie Whitelaw, Donald Pleasence, John Crawford

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 ...( read more  read more... )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 and track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: Val Guest

Release Date: April 10, 1960

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • Phonex
    June 21, 2009
    Phonex
    Val Guest's Hell Is a City (1960), is an unusually tough crime docu-thriller with some striking Manchester-area locations. Martineau (Stanley Baker), is a tough police inspector tracking down an escaped prisoner Don Starling (John Crawford) who turns murderer, whilst coping with ...( read more)a frigid, nagging wife (Maxine Audley) who resents the time he spends on his work. Billie Whitelaw was involved in a moment of discreet nudity that was quite surprising for a British film of that period.
  • Wileoese
    March 15, 2009
    Wileoese
    I lost interest early on.

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