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The Siege of Sidney Street (1960)

Director: Robert S Baker, Monty Berman

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From Time Out Film Guide

Baker-Berman hardly rival Powell-Pressburger in the creative collaboration stakes. But their exploitations of various lurid bits of British history - see The Flesh and the Fiends, The Hellfire Club - aren't entirely negligible. This one's about the gang of anarchists led by the enigmatic Peter the Painter who peppered the East End with gunfire in 1910-11. The shoot-ups aren't bad, but apart from Wyngarde - why didn't he become a film star? - cops and robbers alike are a dull lot. Where the film scores is in its unexpected sympathy for the gang's agenda and in its thoughtful picture of a Victorian world of barrel organs and horse dung giving way to one of phones, cars and automatics. That's Jimmy Sangster as Winston Churchill in the climactic siege sequence.

Author: BBa 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • David Lynch said...
    Posted on Jul 28 2007 17:15 I saw this film originally in 1960, shortly after it was released and I was 12 years ol. It was a brilliant film and the 'B' movie and far better than the main feature, the name of which I am unable to recall.
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Cast & crew

Director: Robert S Baker, Monty Berman

Producer: Robert S Baker, Monty Berman

Cast: Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger, Peter Wyngarde, Kieron Moore, Leonard Sachs, TP McKenna, Tutte Lemkow full cast

Duration: 94 mins


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