1963-10-08 • 1h 33m

The passion, the vices, the violence of the London district known as West 11

Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...

Directors

Michael Winner

Writters

Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse

Editors

Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse, Bernard Gribble