Violent Playground
Crime
Drama
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.
1958-01-14
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Cast
Director
Basil Dearden
Stanley Baker as Detective Sergeant Jack Truman
Anne Heywood as Cathie Murphy
David McCallum as Johnnie Murphy
Peter Cushing as Father Laidlaw
John Slater as Sgt. Walker
Clifford Evans as Headmaster Evans
Moultrie Kelsall as Superintendent
George A. Cooper as Chief Inspector
Michael Chow as Alexander
Tsai Chin as Primrose
Sean Lynch as Slick
Freddie Starr as Tommy
Sheila Raynor as Mrs. Catlin
Grace Arnold as Customer in Grocer's Shop (uncredited)
Jeremy Bulloch as Pageboy at Hotel (uncredited)
Melvyn Hayes as Kid in Johnnie's Gang (uncredited)
Stratford Johns as Police Constable (uncredited)
Robert Raglan as Doorman at Grand Hotel (uncredited)
Philip Ray as Stallholder (uncredited)
Lynne Roberts as Maureen Owen
Cyril Shaps as Hairdresser (uncredited)
Dervis Ward as Constable (uncredited)