Un homme pour le bagne

Original title: Hell Is a City

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In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

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In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.6K

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Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Trivia
The coin-tossing game (known as "two-up") was notorious for deceiving naive players. Such people assume the three outcomes, two heads, two tails, and a head-and-a-tail, to have equal likelihood, 33%. In fact a head-and-a-tail has 50% probability, and the others have 25%.

Goofs
The dead girl on the moors appears to blink but in fact she doesn't and it is her hair blowing in front of her eyes which causes this illusion.

Quotes
Inspector Martineau: You on or off duty?
Devery: I'm just going off.
Inspector Martineau: Come on, I'll buy you a drink.
Devery: Well it's very nice of you, but I'm afraid...
Inspector Martineau: Teach her to wait. That's one thing a policeman's girl must always learn.

Crazy credits
"The production of this film was greatly assisted by the full cooperation of the Chief Constable and the members of the Manchester City Police Force, for which the producers wish to express their thanks." (opening credit)

Connections
Featured in Charters & Caldicott: Not Cricket (1985)

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A Good Un-British, British film.

This is a wonderful example of how worldly some british films can seem, while maintaining their local flavor. I believe that this film is very appropriately set in Manchester, anyone having been to Manchester will tell you its quite a tough place.

50s British entertainment was heavily influenced by Hollywood and continued to be influenced especially on TV until the late 70s, when things all started to get a bit colorless. This movie was made in a time when entertainment came first and the needs of the audience and hence a box office return, came before the politically correct requirements of the day. Having said that I have to say I'm VERY glad that you don't see many characters quite as sorry as Martineau's repressed housebound wife these days!

For those who are not familiar with director Val Guest - check out his other movies. He was a director who knew exactly what he was doing.