Back দ্য ক্রিমিনাল Bengali/Bangla The Criminal Welsh Die Spur führt ins Nichts German The Criminal Basque مجرم (فیلم ۱۹۶۰) Persian Les Criminels French Giungla di cemento (film) Italian The Criminal Dutch
| The Criminal | |
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| Directed by | Joseph Losey |
| Screenplay by | Alun Owen |
| Story by | Jimmy Sangster (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Jack Greenwood |
| Starring | Stanley Baker Sam Wanamaker Grégoire Aslan Margit Saad |
| Cinematography | Robert Krasker |
| Edited by | Reginald Mills |
| Music by | John Dankworth |
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| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated (UK) |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £60,000[1] |
The Criminal (released in the United States as The Concrete Jungle) is a 1960 British neo-noir crime film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Jill Bennett, and Margit Saad.[2][3] Baker plays Johnny Bannion, a recently-paroled gangster (patterned after Albert Dimes[4]) who is sent back to prison after robbing a racetrack, with both the authorities and the criminal underworld looking for the money.
Alun Owen wrote the screenplay, from a story by an uncredited Jimmy Sangster. John Dankworth composed the musical score, with a title song sung by Cleo Laine. The ensemble supporting cast features Jill Bennett, Rupert Davies, Laurence Naismith, Patrick Magee and Murray Melvin in his film debut. The film, a “B” melodrama [5] is noted for its harsh and violent portrayal of prison life which led it to be banned in several countries, including Finland and Ireland.
- ^ Caute, David (1994). Joseph Losey. Oxford University Press. p. 139.
- ^ Palmer and Riley, 1993 p. 160: Filmography
- ^ Hirsch, 1980 p. 236-237: Filmography
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hirsch, 1980 p. 76: “...a B movie prison melodrama redeemed by Losey’s skillful mise-en-scene.”