地狱是一座城市 Hell Is a City / 悍匪伏法记

重犯越狱后即犯下滔天罪行，有众多目击者见过其人，警方却仍束手无策，逃犯犹如鬼魅般穿行于城市之中...

Inspector Harry Martineau (Steve Baker), a hard-nosed detective stationed in Manchester England, feels that an escaped thief Don Starling (John Crawford) is going to return to town to retrieve a cache of stolen jewels that he hid before he was convicted. Martineau has domestic troubles as he and his wife Julia Martineau (Maxine Audley) bicker about his role as a policeman and their childless marriage. The escaped criminal Starling arrives in town and immediately forms a gang to rob a bookmaker Gus Hawkins (Donald Pleasance), of what they think will be the minimal amount of money to get the crook out of town but what they steal is a large amount of money marked with a green ink by the bank to prevent theft. Starling accidentally kills a young girl during the robbery and while dumping the body at a deserted location the gang is spotted and Martineau instinctively knowing who is responsible, takes steps to track down as much information as he can, in many instances only steps behind the crook. On the run Starling starts going to as many places as he can for refuge, at one point hiding in the attic of the bookmaker he robbed Gus Hawkins, threatening his philandering wife Chloe (Billie Whitelaw). Starling manages to knock Hawkins unconscious sending him to the hospital and Martineau, following up on his hunch, figures out the truth and squeezes more information from Hawkins wife Chloe. At a large coin-flipping gambling game, where some of the tainted money exchanges hands, Martineau catches up with the accomplices in the robbery and gets closer to the murderer. When Starling recovers the cache of stolen jewels from a furniture dealer he confronts a young girl Silver Steele (Sarah Branch) and draws the attention of the neighborhood and Martineau who pursues the thief to a final showdown on the rooftops above Manchester.

3.5；黑色电影特质明显，虽为英雄，却无法改编孤独的命运，游荡在恶念丛生的街头，享受片刻的自由；除却探案过程，警长的婚姻生活是一个亮点，也为影片披上一层抑郁的色彩。
警察老婆的任务就是每天坐在家里抱怨。。。。
汉默出品的新黑色电影
坏人抓到了、中年危机仍无处排解的孤独男人……罪案部分无论视觉、台词还是刺耳的爵士配乐都很复古hard-boiled黑片风，但过程不吸引人，警务视角和罪犯视角都没什么意思；女性角色带出的婚姻生活场景和潜在的恋爱可能一开始不太看得出意图，感觉基调不搭，如果男主心理活动更明晰一些，这部分戏份效果会更好。
从上上周的荒诞电影周跳跃到了莫名其妙的黑色电影周。哎
三星半。早期犯罪，情节紧凑。结尾倒略显拖沓。那时的犯罪片好像法国的更好一点
相比法国新浪潮，英国的新浪潮显得尤为realistic，具有工业时代的特色，同时很直白地透露出这个民族的色彩，中规中矩、严谨无趣。犯罪片主角的言行为他笼罩上一层灰蒙蒙的雾面；聒噪的妻子哭哭啼啼，很难可爱起来。唯一的亮点在于聋哑女孩天真烂漫的笑容：大概是开在苦难之上的花更加刺眼的缘故。
三星半，颇为黑色英国犯罪片其实可归为黑色电影。犯罪的城市逃跑的罪犯中年的警察，罪犯一心理和游荡，妻子和聋哑女孩也算是对男主侧面描写精彩的两笔。整体紧凑无任何累赘可看。
film noir, 蛇蝎美人、家庭、谋杀、阴影、侦探；最后想起了西北偏北； 然后就是男主阴郁的家庭 和生产同那个失语的女生对应了，挺有趣的 （或许是我想多了
其实没什么特别的，主要人物除了侦探男主都多少沾点傻，但是我最后是为了男主的塑造往上拔了算是半颗星吧，那种孤独感令我感同身受了，或许这部片应该改名叫“地狱在于自己”会更好一点吧
hammer的黑色电影，有一些仿作痕迹，除了聋哑女孩的角色设定稍令人眼前一亮，视听和文本都没什么新意。
无聊
散发着浓烈的时代背景气息，故事整体也具有一定的可观性。三星半。
还不够noir，男主太道德了
富有时代性的英国犯罪逃犯故事，值得一看！
我怎么又觉得男主像老费了，看球后遗症很成问题。总之是很普通的片子。
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躺盘
凶手非常穷凶极恶，警察非常尽职不过也有躲避家庭生活的感觉，警察妻子有个不着家的丈夫自己又没一份工作或兴趣爱好，所以两人只能是一对怨侣...
节奏好快。