Hell is a City
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Directed by Val Guest, 1960. A superb Hammer-produced policier featuring Stanley Baker as Inspector Martineau, hunting a murderer while grappling with his crumbling marriage. The film culminates in one of British crime cinema's most thrilling climaxes, atop a building in Manchester. Part of the series Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960. Screening on film.