The Criminal (Blu-ray)
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The Criminal (DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 18, 2020
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan & Margit Saad | |
| Performer: | Jill Bennett, Rupert Davies, Laurence Naismith, John Van Eyssen, Noel Willman, Patrick Magee, Kenneth Cope, Patrick Wymark, Paul Stassino, Jerold Wells, Tom Bell, Neil McCarthy & Nigel Green | |
| Directed by | Joseph Losey | |
| Edited by | Reginald Mills | |
| Screenplay by | Alun Owen | |
| Composition by | John Dankworth | |
| Director of Photography: | Robert Krasker |
Entertainment Reviews:
83%
54%
Rating: B+ --
Losey does an excellent job of depicting the brutality of both prison life and the British underworld.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Neither a dynamic central performance, nor a director and script-writer of individual talent, can conceal the frayed conventions of a story-line largely irrelevant to this film's main purpose.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Not a shot is wasted, [Losey's] control over his material, his actors, and his visuals is more rigorous and more strikingly personal than before. In The Criminal he has at last fought his way to the top.
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Sight and Sound
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Even though the physical violence is kept to a minimum, Losey uses the sound of a riot to help feed the mounting oppression, mirroring the psychological turmoil within Bannion himself.
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Eye for Film
Losey is an incomparable engineer of frenzy
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CinePassion
Product Description:
This British thriller stars Stanley Baker as Johnny Bannion, a well-known hoodlum and the leader of an unorganized gang of criminals. When his stay in prison is cut short by a daring prison break perpetrated by his right-hand man, Mike Carter, Johnny immediately begins planning a big racetrack heist. Unfortunately, this job lands Johnny in the slammer once again, only this time his prison stay is made much tougher by hostile fellow convicts and old associates who would like nothing better than to overthrow Britain's reigning underworld kingpin.
