Violent Playground (1958)
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(6 ratings)
Violent Playground opens with a few West Side Story style shots of a Liverpool street gang, commandeered by a very nasty-looking David McCallum. We're going to be seeing a lot more of McCallum before the final fadeout: His sister (Anne Heywood) is in love with an upright police officer (Stanley… More Violent Playground opens with a few West Side Story style shots of a Liverpool street gang, commandeered by a very nasty-looking David McCallum. We're going to be seeing a lot more of McCallum before the final fadeout: His sister (Anne Heywood) is in love with an upright police officer (Stanley Baker). The film plods along predictable grounds until the climactic rumble sequence, which is as good as anything ever seen in Hollywood "J.D." picture. Violent Playground didn't get much American play in 1957, principally because there was a glut of such films at the time. The picture received a new lease on life in the early 1960s to cash in on the Man From UNCLE popularity of David McCallum. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Basil Dearden
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
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Cast
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Stanley Baker
as Sgt. Truman
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Anne Heywood
as Cathie Murphy
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David McCallum
as Johnny Murphy
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Peter Cushing
as Priest
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John Slater
as Sgt. Walker
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Clifford Evans
as Heaven Evans
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Moultrie Kelsall
as Superintendent
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George A. Cooper
as Chief Inspector
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Michael Chow
as Alexander
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Sean Lynch
as Slick
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Tsai Chin
as Primrose
- Sheila Raynor
- Bernice Swanson
- Christopher Cooke
