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The Hard Boiled Crime Classic from the Director of The Servant and The Go-Between
Stanley Baker (Hell Is A City, Zulu) stars as underworld kingpin Johnny Bannion, sprung from prison by his best friend Mike Carter to mastermind a daring racetrack heist. But when Johnny is sent back to jail shortly after hiding the stolen loot, he must survive and ordeal of brutality and betrayal at the hands of his fellow convicts and former accomplices in this gritty drama that was originally advertised as "The Toughest Film Ever Made In Britain!"
Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange) co-stars in this grim crime classic (also known as The Concrete Jungle) directed by American expatriate Joseph Losey from a powerful script by Jimmy Sangster (Fear in the Night) and Oscar nominee Alun Owen (A Hard Day's Night) and featuring a haunting score by John Dankworth and Cleo Laine.
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