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Budget. £115,000. Hell Is a City is a 1960 British crime thriller film starring Stanley Baker, based on the 1954 novel of the same title by Maurice Procter. [1] Written and directed by Val Guest, it was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and filmed on location in Manchester. It was partly inspired by the British New Wave films and ...
Hell Is a City: Directed by Val Guest. With Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley. In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
- (1.4K)
- Crime, Thriller
- Val Guest
- 1960-11-13
Mar 24, 2024 · 1960, 9Honey Movies. Hell Is A City. An escaped convict is tracked across the moors by a determined detective, after the robbery and murder of a local girl. Starring Stanley Baker, Donald Pleasence, Johnny Crawford. Contains: Some Violence.
- 96 min
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to ...
Hell Is a City. Rent Hell Is a City on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. A British police inspector (Stanley Baker) waits in Manchester for an escaped killer (John Crawford) to return for his ...
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- Crime, Drama
- Val Guest
Brief Synopsis. 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.
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Synopsis. Inspector Harry Martineau (Steve Baker), a hard-nosed detective stationed in Manchester England, feels that an escaped thief Don Starling (John Crawford) is going to return to town to retrieve a cache of stolen jewels that he hid before he was convicted. Martineau has domestic troubles as he and his wife Julia Martineau (Maxine Audley ...
