Details

Release year: 1960

Storyline

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who's escaped from prison.

Top credits

Directors

Val Guest

Writers

Cast

Stanley Baker — Det. Inspector Harry Martineau
John Crawford — Don Starling
Donald Pleasence — Gus Hawkins
Maxine Audley — Julia Martineau

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Awards

0 wins & 2 nominations

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Did you know

• The coin-tossing game (known as "two-up") was notorious for deceiving naive players. Such people assume the three outcomes, two heads, two tails, and a head-and-a-tail, to have equal likelihood, 33%. In fact a head-and-a-tail has 50% probability, and the others have 25%.

• This was the last Hammer Film of Stanley Baker as his services could no longer be afforded.

• The film was considered quite violent for the times. This was courtesy of scenes showing a woman being coshed to death, a police officer being kicked in the ribs after being shot and a woman being shot in the back.