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Post by JonH on Mar 2, 2018 17:18:35 GMT
Recorded this off talking pictures enjoying it so far very fast paced!  |
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Post by Cartman on Mar 3, 2018 22:49:41 GMT
Great film, one of my favorite actors in it, Stanley Baker. Love the Manchester locations in 1959/60
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Post by Cartman on Jan 23, 2022 14:34:57 GMT
It was on TPTV yesterday so I recorded it and rewatched it. Great film and Stanley Baker is excellent in it. The locations are terrific and what a great place Manchester was then, in contrast to the bland sanitised place it is now.
I particularly like the bits in the passage off Cross Street, near Victoria station, which was just as it was when I was a kid, not long after it was filmed, and we used to come to Manchester on the train from Radcliffe, it's a great snapshot of the world as it was, in the time and place where I first came into it!
Some of the other locations, around Oldham, looked familiar from A Kind of Loving, filmed a couple of years later.
Some good motors too, police Wolseley 6/90s, a 1938 Buick, a mark 2 Consul, an FX3 taxi and a couple of Manchester Corporation buses.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jan 23, 2022 16:07:44 GMT
I've always liked Hell Is A City from the first time I saw it. Its got a great atmosphere and some terrific locations.
Stanley Baker is very good in a part that suits him down to the ground. I also thought the American actor who played the villian gave a cracking performance in the film.
What a shame some of the Manchester locations have changed so much from when it was first filmed. I'd love to have visited them especially that passageway where the robbery took place.
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Post by Cartman on Jan 23, 2022 17:21:58 GMT
I think Manchester retained much of its gritty character, despite redevelopment in the 60s, until the 90s. The IRA bomb in 1996 started an out of control frenzy of overpriced and ugly apartment blocks and the city council has become little more than a front organisation for property developers.
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Post by Three Litre on Jan 23, 2022 18:42:26 GMT
I've always liked Hell Is A City from the first time I saw it. Its got a great atmosphere and some terrific locations. Stanley Baker is very good in a part that suits him down to the ground. I also thought the American actor who played the villian gave a cracking performance in the film. What a shame some of the Manchester locations have changed so much from when it was first filmed. I'd love to have visited them especially that passageway where the robbery took place. Charles.. The American was John Crawford who played the mayor in Dirty Harry film, The Enforcer. He was also in The Towering Inferno playing a guy called Callahan. Possibly Harry's brother! |
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Post by Cartman on Jan 23, 2022 19:39:19 GMT
Just remembered a Sweeney face in it too, Warren Mitchell, Big Spender. He was the bloke driving the white Morris Oxford who stopped to phone the police after he found the girls body.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 29, 2022 23:08:50 GMT
A good film though I find Stanley's attempt at a Northern accent distracting. It was filmed in a particularly wide screen ratio as a few other Hammer films were, this format was unsuited to the documentary like filming of the Manchester locations I think.
Some good smudges of the film being made in this article-
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