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Violent Playground is a black and white 1958 British film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, and David McCallum. The film, which deals with the genre of juvenile delinquent, has an explicit social agenda. It owes much to U.S. films of a similar genre.
Violent Playground: Directed by Basil Dearden. With Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum, Peter Cushing. The struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a dangerous young pyromaniac.
- (842)
- Drama, Crime
- Basil Dearden
- 1958-03-07
Apr 23, 2016 · Violent Playground is a 1958 British film directed by Basil Dearden starring Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing and David McCallum.
- 102 min
- 78.2K
- Des Heard MBE
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- Basil Dearden
- 11
- John H. Watson
Sgt. Truman (Stanley Baker), a policeman who deals with juvenile delinquents, visits the Murphy household after a theft by the young twins, Mary and Patrick. There he meets their older sister ...
- (17)
- Basil Dearden
- Drama
- Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David Mccallum
Combining social realism, juvenile delinquency, and a gritty noir atmosphere, Basil Dearden’s Violent Playground is perhaps the only classic film noir more frightening today than the year it was released: that’s because it contains an extended sequence in which a mentally unstable young man invades an elementary school with a machine gun ...
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Stark, explosive drama - as the camera lays bare the heart of a big city and probe the secrets of its Violent Playground. A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
