A Place to Go (1963)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Basil Dearden

Writers:

Clive Exton (writer)
Michael Fisher (novel)

Release Date:

July 1963 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

Amidst the pub sing-songs and bombsites and with slums giving way to high-rise flats, life in Bethnal Green is changing for the Flints...

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel | Independent Film

Cast

Bernard Lee	...	Matt Flint
Rita Tushingham	...	Catherine Donovan
Michael Sarne	...	Ricky Flint
Doris Hare	...	Lil Flint
Barbara Ferris	...	Betsy
John Slater	...	Jack Ellerman
David Andrews	...	Jim
William Marlowe	...	Charlie Batey
Michael Wynne	...	Pug
Roy Kinnear	...	Bunting
Norman Shelley	...	Magistrate
Jerry Verno	...	Nobby Knowles
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marjie Lawrence	...	Sally (as Marjorie Lawrence)

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:A

Filming Locations:

Bethnal Green, London, England, UK

Company:

Excalibur Films

Gritty brit flick

Some excellent and vivid location work around Bethnal Green in London is the setting for this slice of "kitchen sink" life.It portrays a family struggling to keep their heads above the water as the man of the house Bernard Lee loses his job for being too mouthy at work, he then takes to the streets as an escapologist in order to get money for food on the table, quite often embarrassing himself and his family in the process. Meanwhile his son played by 60ts singing star Mike Sarne is fed up being on the breadline and turns to local gangster John Slater to do a robbery at the factory he works at, it goes wrong but he manages to get out of it in a hurry, meanwhile Sarne's love interest played by the lovely Rita Tushingham certainly is'nt an easy catch. All in all a really good slab of realism directed by the excellent Basil Dearden. Recommended.