Violent Playground (1958)
EVERY CITY HAS ITS DANGEROUS YOUTH. 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.
- Date of release
- 1958-01-14
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Basil Dearden
Casting
- Stanley Baker — Detective Sergeant Jack Truman
- Anne Heywood — Cathie Murphy
- David McCallum — Johnnie Murphy
- Peter Cushing — Father Laidlaw
- John Slater — Sgt. Walker
- Clifford Evans — Headmaster Evans
- Moultrie Kelsall — Superintendent
- George A. Cooper — Chief Inspector
- Brona Boland — Mary Murphy
- Fergal Boland — Patrick Murphy
- Michael Chow — Alexander
- Tsai Chin — Primrose
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