Violent Playground ( Violent Play ground )

Violent Playground (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: Violent Play ground
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1958 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Basil Dearden

Written By:
James Kennaway

Actors:
Stanley Baker ..... Truman
Anne Heywood ..... Cathie
David McCallum ..... Johnnie Murphy
Peter Cushing ..... Priest
John Slater ..... Sgt. Walker
Clifford Evans ..... Heaven
Moultrie Kelsall ..... Superintendent
George A. Cooper ..... Chief Inspector
Brona Boland ..... Mary Murphy
Fergal Boland ..... Patrick Murphy
Michael Chow ..... Alexander
Tsai Chin ..... Primrose
Sean Lynch ..... Slick
Bernice Swanson ..... Meg
Nosher Powell ..... Tommy

Synopsis:

Violent Playground opens with a few West Side Story style shots of a Liverpool street gang, commandeered by a very nasty-looking David McCallum. We're going to be seeing a lot more of McCallum before the final fadeout: His sister (Anne Heywood) is in love with an upright police officer (Stanley Baker). The film plods along predictable grounds until the climactic rumble sequence, which is as good as anything ever seen in Hollywood "J.D." picture. Violent Playground didn't get much American play in 1957, principally because there was a glut of such films at the time. The picture received a new lease on life in the early 1960s to cash in on the Man From UNCLE popularity of David McCallum.

Violent Playground is a 1958 film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Peter Cushing, Stanley Baker and David McCallum. It centres on a Liverpool street gang led by Johnny Murphy (McCallum). When local Juvenile Liaison Officer Sergeant Truman (Baker) visits the Murphy household, with the view that if you catch kids at an early age, they will end up being reseponsible adults. Truman becomes romantically involved with Johnny s sister and also finds considerable points of similarity between his previous investigations into the activities of an arsonist know as the Firefly and his investigation of Johnny.

Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac. The delinquent is finally taken away to face justice and the Officer is promised a happy future with his sister.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 14 February, 2012.

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