Hell Is a City (1960)
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72% of users liked it
(78 ratings)
With an award-winning screenplay by director Val Guest, this is a first-rate cops-and-robbers crime drama about a dangerous escaped convict and the police inspector who goes after him. The gritty industrial city of Manchester and its outlying moors provide a somber backdrop to the action. Inspector… More With an award-winning screenplay by director Val Guest, this is a first-rate cops-and-robbers crime drama about a dangerous escaped convict and the police inspector who goes after him. The gritty industrial city of Manchester and its outlying moors provide a somber backdrop to the action. Inspector Martineau (Stanley Baker) suspects that the escaped thief, Don Starling (John Crawford) is going to return to Manchester to retrieve a cache of jewels he hid away before being convicted. The sudden, brutal murder of a woman and the missing money she was carrying, tips the Inspector off that his suspicions were right. He starts tracking down the killer and the gang of men he knows must be working with him, as suspense builds at every turn. The gang falls one by one, until only the killer is left. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- Val Guest
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 10, 1960 Wide
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Chris Cabin, Filmcritic.com
harkens back to the pulp serials where noir was birthed
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's a gritty Hammer story.
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Cast
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Stanley Baker
as Inspector Martineau
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John Crawford
as Don Starling
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Donald Pleasence
as Gus Hawkins
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Maxine Audley
as Julia Martineau
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Billie Whitelaw
as Chloe Hawkins
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Joseph Tomelty
as Furnisher Steele
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George A. Cooper
as Doug Savage
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Geoffrey Frederick
as Devery
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Vanda Godsell
as Lucky Lusk
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Charles Houston
as Clogger Roach
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Joby Blanshard
as Tawny Jakes
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Charles Morgan
as Laurie Lovett
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Peter Madden
as Bert Darwin
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Dickie Owen
as Bragg
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Lois Daine
as Cecily
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Warren Mitchell
as Traveller
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Sarah Branch
as Silver Steele
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Alister Williamson
as Sam
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Russell Napier
as Superintendent
