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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.
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- Crime, Thriller
- Val Guest
- 1960-11-13
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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.
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.
- 96 min
- 96
- Jimbo's Filmcans
A British police inspector (Stanley Baker) waits in Manchester for an escaped killer (John Crawford) to return for his loot.
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- Crime, Drama
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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.