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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
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]
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]
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."
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.
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 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.
Never Back Losers is a 1961 British 'B' [1] crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis and Patrick Magee. [2] It was written by Lucas Heller based on the 1929 novel The Green Ribbon by Edgar Wallace. [3] It was one of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series, produced at Merton Park Studios in the early 1960s. [4]