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Director
  
Val Guest

Initial DVD release
  
December 3, 2002

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Thriller

Budget
  
115,000 GBP

Country
  
United Kingdom

Hell Is a City movie poster

Release date
  
10 April 1960

Based on
  
Hell Is a City  by Maurice Procter

Writer
  
Val Guest (screenplay), Maurice Procter (novel)

Initial release
  
April 10, 1960 (United Kingdom)

Cast
  
Stanley Baker
(Insp. Harry Martineau),
John Crawford
(Don Starling),
Donald Pleasence
(Gus Hawkins),
Maxine Audley
(Julia Martineau),
Billie Whitelaw
(Chloe Hawkins),
Joseph Tomelty
(Furnisher Steele)

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28 Days Later...
,
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,
Un Flic
,
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,
The Secret Agent
,
Framed

Tagline
  
Murder money stained his hands....

Hell is a city original theatrical trailer 1959


Hell Is a City is a 1960 film based on the novel by Maurice Procter. Written and directed by Val Guest, it was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and filmed in Manchester. It was partly inspired by the British New Wave films.

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Plot summary

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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. Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try to track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might.

Cast

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  • Stanley Baker as Inspector Harry Martineau
  • John Crawford as Don Starling
  • Donald Pleasence as Gus Hawkins
  • Maxine Audley as Julia Martineau
  • Billie Whitelaw as Chloe Hawkins
  • Joseph Tomelty as Furnisher Steele
  • George A. Cooper as Doug Savage
  • Geoffrey Frederick as Detective Devery
  • Vanda Godsell as Lucky Luske
  • Charles Houston as Clogger Roach
  • Joby Blanshard as Tawny Jakes
  • Charles Morgan as Laurie Lovett
  • Peter Madden as Bert Darwin
  • Dickie Owen as Bragg
  • Lois Daine as Cecily Wainwright
  • Warren Mitchell as Commercial Traveller
  • Sarah Branch as Silver Steele
  • Alister Williamson as Sam
  • Russell Napier as Superintendent
  • Philip Bond as Headquarters PC (uncredited)
  • John Comer as Plainclothes Police Driver (uncredited)
  • John Harvey as Fingerprint Officer (uncredited)
  • Doris Speed as Older Nursing Sister in Hospital (uncredited)

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