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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
It was later distributed in the United States with an 81-minute running time on 22 August 1961, under the title Scream of Fear. [1] The film was a success in the United Kingdom and the United States and was very popular in Europe, being one of Hammer's most profitable productions which led to a cycle of similar films. [3]
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.
That the film should still survive as a passable "support" is a tribute to brevity and skilful acting." [ 5 ] The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Former editor Charles Saunders turned out a series of unexceptional movies after taking to directing, including this negligible crime drama.
The Big Show (1961 film) The Big Wave (film) Bitter End of a Sweet Night; Black City (film) Black Gravel; The Black Monocle; Black Silk; Black Tights; Blast of Silence; Blind Justice (1961 film) Blood Feud (1961 film) Bloodlust! Blue Hawaii; Blueprint for Robbery; Bomb in the High Street; A Bomb Was Stolen; Bootleggers (1961 film) The Boy and ...
Drug films are films that depict either illicit drug distribution or drug use, whether as a major theme, such as by centering the film around drug subculture or by depicting it in a few memorable scenes. Drug cinema ranges from gritty social realism depictions to the utterly surreal depictions in art film and experimental film.
The script was reworked by Terry Nation. It was the first full film screenplay by Nation, who had started out writing for Spike Milligan, who has a cameo. According to write Alwyn W. Turner What a Whopper displayed some of the strengths and flaws that would feature in Nation's subsequent television serials.