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Concrete Jungle / The Criminal (1960)

Posted By: Notsaint

Date: 1 Nov 2015 21:33:12

The Criminal / Concrete Jungle (1960)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 6900 kbps | 7.6Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #2 Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #3 German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: Spanish, English, German, Portuguesse, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finish
01:37:00 | UK | Crime, Drama

An ex-con who's taken part in the robbery of a racetrack is caught and sent back to prison, but he won't tell his fellow gang members where he's stashed the loot. The gang kidnaps his girlfriend and has him tortured in prison in an effort to find out where the money is.

Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan, Margit Saad, Jill Bennett, Rupert Davies, Laurence Naismith, John Van Eyssen, Noel Willman, Derek Francis, Redmond Phillips, Kenneth J. Warren, Patrick Magee, Robert Adams, Kenneth Cope, Patrick Wymark, Jack Rodney, John Molloy, Brian Phelan, Paul Stassino, Jerold Wells, Tom Bell, Neil McCarthy, Keith Smith, Nigel Green, Tom Gerard, Larry Taylor, Murray Melvin, Edward Judd, Charles Lamb

Joseph Losey’s The Criminal (originally released in the States, truncated, as The Concrete Jungle) doesn’t explain much; viewers get to feel they are crossing a complex of lives at some middle point. This bleak, incisive film about prison culture and the workday underworld outside, which somewhat taps a Jean-Pierre Melvillean vein, doesn’t feel packaged. It sometimes leaves the viewer adrift.
Johnny Bannion is a London thug. On the day before his release he is top dog in prison. On the outside he participates in a racetrack robbery, whose Ј40,000 take (minus some) he buries in a field.
Rather than being on top of things, Johnny finds himself enmeshed in a complex scheme of betrayals and counter-betrayals. He ends up back in prison, where there is hell for him to pay because people on the outside connected to those on the inside want to know where the money is.
A haunting ballad brings a melancholy air to cold prison life; the extraordinarily complex mise-en-scиne inside the prison suggests a Dantean inferno. Johnny’s life is crowded but not full; he is a loner perpetually poised to slip into a hellish void. Is it that which criminal activity, dense associations, concrete walls, bars and pictures of naked women were unconsciously intended to hide from sight?

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