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Hell Is A City
''Hell Is a City'' is a 1960 British crime thriller film based on the 1954 novel of the same title 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 and resembles American Film Noir. Plot 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 * 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Guest
Val Guest (born Valmond Maurice Grossman; 11 December 1911 – 10 May 2006) was an English film director and screenwriter. Beginning as a writer (and later director) of comedy films, he is best known for his work for Hammer, for whom he directed 14 films, and science fiction films. He enjoyed a long career in the film industry from the early 1930s until the early 1980s. Reprinted from ''Reference Guide to British and Irish Film Directors'' Early life and career Guest was born to John Simon Grossman and Julia Ann Gladys Emanuel in Maida Vale, London. He later changed his name to Val Guest (officially in 1939). His father was a jute broker, and the family spent some of Guest's childhood in India before returning to England. His parents divorced when he was young, but this information was kept from him. Instead he was told that his mother had died. He was educated at Seaford College in Sussex, but left in 1927 and worked for a time as a bookkeeper. Guest's initial career was as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Martineau
Harry Martineau is a fictional British police detective created by Maurice Procter. He is a Chief Inspector in the industrial Northern city of Granchester, which was inspired by Manchester. Procter, himself a former police officer, wrote fourteen novels in the series published between 1954 and 1968. Martineau has been described as a transitional figure in detective fiction standing between the Golden Age detectives such as Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn and Josephine Tey's Inspector Grant and the newer fashion for police procedurals. Novels * ''Hell Is a City'' (1954) * '' The Midnight Plumber'' (1957) * '' Man in Ambush'' (1958) * ''Killer At Large'' (1959) * ''Devil's Due'' (1960) * ''The Devil Was Handsome'' (1961) * ''A Body to Spare'' (1962) * ''Moonlight Flitting'' (1963) * ''Two Men in Twenty'' (1964) * ''Death Has a Shadow'' (1965) * ''His Weight in Gold'' (1966) * ''Rogue Running'' (1966) * ''Exercise Hoodwink'' (1967) * ''Hideaway'' (1968) Film adaptation In 1960 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Napier
Russell Gordon Napier (28 November 1910 – 19 August 1974) was an Australian actor. Biography Russell Napier was born in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a lawyer, Napier was active as an actor on the stage as early as 1936; on the screen, from 1947 to 1974, playing both comedic and dramatic roles in both cinema and television. He starred in a live BBC television production of H. G. Wells' ''The Time Machine'' in 1949; only still photographs of this production survive. Napier also acted on stage, and in 1936 appeared in a production of T.S. Eliot's ''Murder in the Cathedral'' at The Old Vic, which later transferred to Broadway. He was the most frequent star of the '' Scotland Yard'' series of short films originally released from 1953 to 1961 for screenings in British cinemas, playing Inspector Harmer in two films, and then DI (later Superintendent) Duggan in thirteen others. The series was aired in the United States by the American Broadcasting Company from 1957. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alister Williamson
Alister Williamson (17 June 1918 – 19 May 1999) was an Australian-born character actor, who appeared in many British films and television series of the 1960s and 1970s. A big, craggy-faced man, he would usually be found playing gruff police inspectors or henchmen in adventure series and police dramas of the period. He was also notable as a supporting player in a number of classic British horror films. He would typically be found in television series such as ''Adam Adamant Lives!'', ''The Avengers (TV series), The Avengers'', ''Paul Temple (TV series), Paul Temple'', ''Police Surgeon (UK TV series), Police Surgeon'', ''Public Eye (TV series), Public Eye'', ''The Saint (TV series), The Saint'', ''Softly, Softly (TV series), Softly, Softly'', ''Special Branch (TV series), Special Branch'', ''The Third Man (TV series), The Third Man'' and ''Z-Cars''. He also made appearances in many popular sitcoms of the period, such as ''Please Sir!'', ''Dad's Army'', ''The Galton and Simpson Play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Branch
Sarah Branch (7 January 1938 – 10 November 2007) was an English film actress and model. Life Before appearing in films Sarah Branch modelled wedding gowns at fashion shows.''Daily Mirror'' Obituary, 21 April 2007 She acted in two Hammer Film productions. She played Maid Marian, opposite Richard Greene as Robin Hood, in ''Sword of Sherwood Forest''. Before that she had a small role as a deaf mute girl in Hammer's Noir-like crime drama ''Hell Is A City''. She went to the progressive co-educational St. Mary's Town and Country School. She married a stockbroker John Grant Lithiby in 1961, and they had three children. She died of a terminal illness in 2007. Filmography * ''The Night We Dropped a Clanger'', released in the US as ''Make Mine a Double'' (1959) * ''Hell Is a City ''Hell Is a City'' is a 1960 British crime thriller film based on the 1954 novel of the same title by Maurice Procter. Written and directed by Val Guest, it was made by British studio Hammer Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was a British actor. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes ''Educating Archie'' and ''Hancock's Half Hour''. He also performed minor roles in several films. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom '' Till Death Us Do Part'' (1965–75), created by Johnny Speight, which won him a Best TV Actor BAFTA in 1967. He reprised the role in the television sequels '' Till Death...'' ( ATV, 1981) and ''In Sickness and in Health'' (BBC, 1985–92), and in the films '' Till Death Us Do Part'' (1969) and ''The Alf Garnett Saga'' (1972). His other film appearances include ''Three Crooked Men'' (1958), ''Carry On Cleo'' (1964), '' The Spy Who Came In from the Cold'' (1965), '' The Assassination Bureau'' (1969) and ''Norman Loves Rose'' (1982). He held bot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickie Owen
Dickie Owen (26 March 1927 – 7 April 2015) was a British actor primarily known for his roles in '' Zulu'', ''The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'' and ''The Mummy's Shroud ''The Mummy's Shroud'' is a 1967 British DeLuxe colour horror film made by Hammer Film Productions which was directed by John Gilling. It stars André Morell and David Buck as explorers who uncover the tomb of an ancient Egyptian mummy. It als ...''. Owen largely retired from acting in the 1970s and worked as a radio dispatcher for a cab company. After a long public absence, he was interviewed in 2011 about his experiences making ''Zulu''. Filmography Films References External links * Zulu Film Store {{DEFAULTSORT:Owen, Dickie 1927 births 2015 deaths British male film actors British male television actors 20th-century British male actors Place of birth missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Madden (actor)
Peter Madden (9 August 1904 – 24 February 1976) was a British actor who was born in Ipoh in the Federated Malay States (now Malaysia). Birth The son of Frederick Charles Linnet Butler-Madden and Margaret Teresa ( McCabe), Peter Madden's name at birth was Dudley Frederick Peter Butler-Madden. Career Madden was a character actor who made several appearances in Hammer films and was a familiar face in British film and television during the 1950s and 1960s. He appeared as the innkeeper Bruno in ''The Kiss of the Vampire'' (1963) and as the stern Police Chief in '' Frankenstein Created Woman'' (1967). His last Hammer role was brief, as a coach driver in '' Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell'' (1973). In the cult television series ''The Prisoner'' (1967), Madden, uncredited, plays the sinister undertaker in the opening sequence. On television he was seen in ''Danger Man'', ''Z-Cars'', '' The Avengers'', '' The Saint'' and ''The Champions'', ''Out of the Unknown'', ''Orson Welles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Morgan (actor)
Charles Morgan (21 July 1909 – May 1994) was a Welsh actor. Selected filmography * ''Train of Events'' (1949) – Second plain clothes man (segment "The Actor") * ''Radio Cab Murder'' (1954) – J. L. MacLaren * '' The One That Got Away'' (1957) – Manager at Hucknall (uncredited) * '' Hell Is a City'' (1960) – Laurie Lovett * ''Cash on Demand'' (1961) – Det. Sgt. Collins (uncredited) * '' The Day the Earth Caught Fire'' (1961) – Foreign Editor (uncredited) * ''The Pot Carriers'' (1962) – Chief Disciplinary Prison Officer * '' The Boys'' (1962) – Samuel Wallace * ''Doctor Who'' (1967–1978) – Songsten / Gold Usher * ''Duffer'' (1971) – Man Fighting * ''Au Pair Girls'' (1972) – Fred * ''Armaguedon'' (1977) * ''Quincy's Quest ''Quincy's Quest'' is a 1979 British family film directed by Robert Reed, and starring Tommy Steele, Mel Martin and Charles Morgan. A version was first shown on television on 23 December 1962 as ''The Tommy Steele Show: Quincy's Quest''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Blanshard
John Henry "Joby" Blanshard (7 November 1919 – 26 November 1992) was an English film and television actor, most famous for playing Colin Bradley in 32 episodes of the early 1970s "science-fact" series, ''Doomwatch''. Filmography * ''The Passing Stranger'' (1954) - (uncredited) * '' Breakout'' (1959) - Prison officer (uncredited) * '' Hell Is a City'' (1960) - Tawny Jakes * ''Crooks Anonymous'' (1962) - Peekaboo Doorman * '' 80,000 Suspects'' (1963) - Health Inspector Matthews (uncredited) * ''West 11'' (1963) - Man at Bus Stop (uncredited) * ''Moon Zero Two'' (1969) - Smith * '' The Reckoning'' (1970) - Bottomley * ''Doomwatch'' (1972) - Colin Bradley * ''Frenzy ''Frenzy'' is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the 1966 novel ''Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Squa ...'' (1972) - Man in Crowd (uncredited) * ''In the Forest'' (1978) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanda Godsell
Vanda Godsell (17 November 1922 – 2 April 1990) was an English actress. Hal Erickson writes in Allmovie, "Vanda Godsell specialised in playing disheveled housewives, busybody landladies and blowsy domestics." She appeared as Mrs Weaver in '' This Sporting Life'' (1963), Mrs Pitt in '' Bitter Harvest'' (1965), Mrs Goodge in '' The Wrong Box'' (1967) Early life She was born in Bognor Regis into the Godsell family, best known for its brewery based in Stroud. Her father was an officer in the Navy and served in the Battle of Jutland whilst her mother, Muriel, was the sister of novelist and actress Naomi Jacob. Godsell's sister Felicia was also an actress, and her other sister was an editor in the publishing world. Career Godsell began acting when she joined the Bristol Repertoire aged 14 making her film debut in 1953 in '' Flannelfoot'' starring Ronald Howard. She also appeared in '' Hell Is a City'', '' A Shot in the Dark'', ''The Earth Dies Screaming'', '' The Wrong Box'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George A
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |