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Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1961: Bomb in the High Street: Peter Bezencenet, Terry Bishop: Ronald Howard, Terry Palmer, Suzanna Leigh, Jack Allen: Drama: The Breaking Point: Lance Comfort
The Monthly Film Bulletin said "Unexceptional crime-and-vengeance thriller, lumbered with unnecessary plot ramifications and pretensions toward deeper motivation that neither script nor cast are equipped to handle properly. The direction is rough-and-ready, but keeps the action ticking over steadily."
This is a chronological list of films produced in the United Kingdom split by decade. There may be an overlap, particularly between British and American films which are sometimes co-produced; the list should attempt to document films which are either British produced or strongly associated with British culture.
Until 1916 drug use was hardly controlled, and widely available opium and coca preparations commonplace. [1]: 13–14 Between 1916 and 1928 concerns about the use of these drugs by troops on leave from the First World War and then by people associated with the London criminal society gave rise to some controls being implemented. [1]
The Lancashire-set film Whistle Down the Wind, starring Hayley Mills and Alan Bates, opens. 3 August – Suicide Act 1961 decriminalises acts of, or attempts at suicide in England and Wales. 10 August – The UK applies for membership of the EEC.
Man Detained is a 1961 British second feature ('B') [1] crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale and Paul Stassino. [2] The screenplay was by Richard Harris, based on the 1916 Edgar Wallace novel A Debt Discharged. [3] It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios from ...
Cash on Demand is a 1961 British black and white second feature [2] neo noir crime thriller film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Peter Cushing and André Morell. [3] The screenplay was adapted from the 1960 Associated Television Theatre 70 teleplay The Gold Inside, also directed by Lawrence, and featuring André Morell and Richard Vernon in the same roles.
Rag Doll, released in the USA as Young, Willing and Eager, is a 1961 British second feature [1] crime film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Christina Gregg, Kenneth Griffith, Jess Conrad and Hermione Baddeley. [2] It was written by Derry Quinn and Brock Williams.