West 11 (1963)

The passion, the vices, the violence of the London district known as West 11

Cast

Alfred Lynch, Kathleen Breck, Eric Portman, Diana Dors, Kathleen Harrison

Overview

Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...