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Country
  
United Kingdom

Language
  
English

Director
  
Robert S. Baker Monty Berman

Writer
  
Alexander Baron
,
Jimmy Sangster

Release date
  
11 October 1960

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The Siege of Sidney Street is a 1960 British historical drama film co-directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman. It stars Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger and Kieron Moore.

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The film depicts the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street in which armed police surrounded a house occupied by a gang in the East End of London.

It was filmed at Ardmore Studios in Ireland, with shots of Dublin standing in for pre-First World War East London.

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Cast

  • Donald Sinden as Mannering
  • Nicole Berger as Sara
  • Kieron Moore as Toska
  • Peter Wyngarde as Peter
  • Godfrey Quigley as Blakey
  • Tutte Lemkow as Dmitrieff
  • Bart Bastable as Sergeant Tucker
  • George Pastell as Brodsky
  • Angela Newman as Nina
  • T. P. McKenna as Lapidos
  • Maurice Good as Gardstein
  • James Caffrey as Hefeld
  • Harold Goldblatt as Hersh
  • Christopher Casson as Police Commissioner
  • Harry Brogan as Old Harry
  • Alan Simpson as Uniformed Police Inspector
  • Jimmy Sangster as Winston Churchill (uncredited cameo)
  • Production

    Donald Sinden, then a contract star for the Rank Organisation at Pinewood Studios, recalled "The scene in the blazing room we filmed in the studio and I was vastly intrigued to watch the way the special effects department created the illusion. They began by making everything on set completely fireproof. They then spread an inflammable jelly over the sections that were seen to be burning and just before "Action" it was set alight. Tables and chairs and curtains blazed away and at the end of the scene the flames were extinguished ready for the next Take. It was remarkable. Nothing was damaged. Leonard Sachs, playing Svaars (uncredited) was left in the room with the revolver; his clothes had also been fireproofed and in the long-shot flames licked from the jelly which had been put on his back. For the next shot, his close-up, he was having the jelly placed strategically on his shoulders and arms. I was talking to someone in the crew when another of the crew approached and whispered to his colleague 'Have they fireproofed his hair?' 'No, I don't think they have. It would take 20-minutes.' I was later informed that had Leonard suffered any damage, the insurance company would have paid up, but twenty minutes of the crew's time, on an hourly rate, merely to fireproof an actor's hair would have had to have been paid for by the film company. Thankfully Leonard only suffered mild burns to his hair and scalp!"

    References

    The Siege of Sidney Street Wikipedia