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British Crime Cinema
About this book
This is the first substantial study of British cinema's most neglected genre. Bringing together original work from some of the leading writers on British popular film, this book includes interviews with key directors Mike Hodges (Get Carter) and Donald Cammel (Performance). It discusses an abundance of films including:
* acclaimed recent crime films such as Shallow Grave, Shopping, and Face.
* early classics like They Made Me A Fugitive
* acknowledged classics such as Brighton Rock and The Long Good Friday
* 50s seminal works including The Lavender Hill Mob and The Ladykillers.
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Subtopic
Film & VideoFilmography, 1939–1997
Compiled by Andrew Clay and Steve Chibnall, assisted by Sumay Helas and Kevin Waite
The following is a chronological listing of British films featuring the activities of professional criminals as a significant element in a narrative which is
- set mainly within the period since 1939
- not primarily comedic in character
- more than 45 minutes in length
The filmography reflects the book’s focus on representations of a British criminal underworld in which crime is motivated chiefly by the desire for money, and on this basis it excludes espionage thrillers and films about political terrorism. The concern with the ideas of Britishness and the underworld has led us to divide the films into primary and secondary classifications.
The primary filmography is composed of films in which underworld-based crime is a central activity and in which most of the narrative takes place in Britain, but also includes a few marginal texts that might be excluded on one or other of these criteria but which are discussed as crime films in the book. The secondary filmography is composed of films in which crime is a more minor element, takes place abroad or is white collar in character.
Abbreviations
Associated British Picture Corporation
book
British Lion Production Assets
characters
(Col.) colour
novel
play
radio serial
radio series
story
television play
television serial
television series
| Title (Year1) | Director | Production company (Producer) | Screenwriter (Story) | Leading players | Crime interest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mind of Mr Reeder (USA The Mysterious Mr Reeder) (1939) | Jack Raymond | Jack Raymond (Charles Q. Steele) | Bryan Wallace, Marjorie Gaffney, Michael Hogan (N: Edgar Wallace) | Will Fyffe, John Warwick | Forgery |
| The Spider (1939) | Maurice Elvey | Admiral Wembley (Victor M. Greene) | Kenneth Horne, Reginald Long (N: Henry Holt) | Derrick de Marney, Diana Churchill | Jewel theft |
| There Ain’t No Justice (1939) | Penrose Tennyson | Ealing (Sergei Nolbandov) | Penrose Tennyson, Sergei Nolbandov, James Curtis (N: James Curtis) | Jimmy Hanley, Edward Chapman | Boxing, racketeering |
| Too Dangerous to Live (1939) | Anthony Hankey, Leslie Norman | Warner Bros (Jerome Jackson) | Paul Gangelin, Connery Chappell, Leslie Arliss (N: David Hume) | Sebastian Shaw, Greta Gynt | Jewel theft |
| They Came By Night (1940) | Harry Lachman | Twentieth Century (Edward Black) | Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat, Michacl Hogan, Roland Pertwee (P: Barre Lyndon) | Will Fyffe, Phylis Calvert | Jewellery and bullion robbery |
| Two for Danger (1940) | George King | Warner Bros (A.M. Salomon) | BrockWillia ms, Basil Woon, Hugh Gray (Brock Williams) | Barry K. Barnes, Gret... |
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- British
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Parole overdue: releasing the British crime film into the critical community
- The censors and British gangland, 1913-1990
- Spin a dark web
- Outrage: No Orchids for Miss Blandish
- Men, women and money: masculinity in crisis in the British professional crime film 1946-1965
- The higher heel: women and the post-war British crime film
- The emergence of the British tough guy: Stanley Baker, masculinity and the crime thriller
- Ordinary people: ‘New Wave’ realism and the British crime film 1959-1963
- Performance: interview with Donald Cammell
- Mike Hodges discusses Get Carter with the NFT audience, 23 September 1997
- A revenger’s tragedy – Get Carter
- Dog eat dog: The Squeeze and the Sweeney films
- Space in the British crime film
- Allegorising the nation: British gangster films of the 1980s
- From underworld to underclass: crime and British cinema in the 1990s
- A filmography of British underworld films, 1939–1997
- Index