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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
IMDb provides the full list of cast and crew members for the 1960 British crime film Hell Is a City, directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker. See the names, roles and credits of actors, writers, producers, composers and more.
A British police inspector (Stanley Baker) waits in Manchester for an escaped killer (John Crawford) to return for his loot. Content collapsed. Where to Watch. Hell Is a City. Prime Video....
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In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison. 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.
Hell Is a City is a 1954 crime novel by the British writer Maurice Procter. [1] It was the first in a series featuring Chief Inspector Harry Martineau, set in the Northern industrial city of Granchester.
Sep 10, 2012 · A persuasively sweaty crime thriller set in Manchester, written and directed by the once reliable Guest (from a novel by Maurice Proctor), this atypical Hammer production...
