Saturday | November 14 7:00 pm

Hell is a City

Screening on Film

Directed by Val Guest.
With Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence.
UK, 1960, 35mm, black & white, 93 min.
Print source: British Film Institute

A superb Hammer-produced policier featuring Stanley Baker as Inspector Martineau, hunting a murderer while grappling with his crumbling marriage. The film culminates in one of British crime cinema's most thrilling climaxes, atop a building in Manchester.

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Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

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