Release Date: Apr 10, 1960 Wide
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With an award-winning screenplay by director Val Guest, this is a first-rate cops-and-robbers crime drama about a dangerous escaped convict and the police inspector who goes after him. The gritty industrial city of Manchester and its outlying moors provide a somber backdrop to the action. Inspector Martineau (Stanley Baker) suspects that the escaped thief, Don Starling (John Crawford) is going to return to Manchester to retrieve a cache of jewels he hid away before being convicted. The sudden,
Apr 10, 1960 Wide
Mar 29, 2005
Columbia Pictures
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harkens back to the pulp serials where noir was birthed
It's a gritty Hammer story.
Solid British noir that I may be underrating slightly due to the fact that it displays a workmanlike efficiency and adherence to logical progression without standing out in any area as memorable for a particular scene or piece of dialogue. Without these memorable moments that films like White Heat and Kiss Me Deadly
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