1951 Down Place

Episode #013 – Hell is a City

Kicking off Year Two of 1951 Down Place, the Down Placers go to . . . Manchester when they turn their gaze toward 1959’s Hell is a City (dir. Val Guest). This is the first time the gang takes a look at a “Hammer Noir.” How will it fare against these fans of Hammer’s sci-fi and horror offerings? Will Scott find a way to bring up James Bond again? What decidedly-non-British pop culture reference will Derek make that blows Scott’s mind? And Casey? We’ve been podcasting with him for a year, and we still don’t know about him.

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Works Cited

• Carreras, Michael. Afterword. A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer. By Denis Meikle. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009.
• “Hell is a City (1960) – IMDb.” The Internet Movie Database. 28 Aug 2010. Web. 23 Sept 2012.
• Hell is a City.  Dir. Val Guest.  Perf. Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw. Starz/Anchor Bay, 2002.  DVD.
• Hell is a City (DVD Commentary).  Dir. Val Guest.  Perf. Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw. Starz/Anchor Bay, 2002.  DVD.
• Maxford, Howard. Hammer, House of Horror: Behind the Screams. New York City, NY: The Overlook Press, 1996. Print.
• Meikle, Denis. A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2009. Print.