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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.
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.
Mar 24, 2024 · 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.
A British police inspector (Stanley Baker) waits in Manchester for an escaped killer (John Crawford) to return for his loot.
- Crime, Drama
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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.
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.
