Man of Violence is a 1969 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 crime film

Crime film

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 directed by Pete Walker

Pete Walker (director)

Pete Walker is an English film director, writer and producer, specialising in horror and sexploitation films, frequently combining the two....

 and starring Michael Latimer, Hammer girls Virginia Wetherell

Virginia Wetherell

Virginia Wetherell is an English actress best known for her roles in Hammer horror films such as Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and Demons of the Mind...

 (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde is a 1971 British film directed by Roy Ward Baker based on the short story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film was made by British studio Hammer Film Productions and was their second adaptation of the story after their 1960 film The...

, Demons of the Mind

Demons of the Mind

Demons of the Mind is a British period horror film, produced by the Hammer studio. It was directed by Peter Sykes and its cinematographer was Arthur Grant. The cast includes Gillian Hills , Robert Hardy, Patrick Magee, Michael Hordern, and Shane Briant...

) and Luan Peters

Luan Peters

Luan Peters , also known as Karol Keyes, is an English actress.Born as Carol Hirsch, she made her stage debut in a pantomime aged four, then went on to win a drama scholarship at aged 16 after a performance of Twelfth Night...

 (Lust for a Vampire

Lust for a Vampire

Lust For a Vampire is a 1971 British Hammer Horror film directed by Jimmy Sangster, starring Yutte Stensgaard, Michael Johnston and Barbara Jefford. It is the second film in the so-called Karnstein Trilogy loosely based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu novella Carmilla...

, Twins of Evil

Twins of Evil

Twins of Evil is a 1971 horror film by Hammer Film Productions starring Peter Cushing, with Damien Thomas and the real-life twins and former Playboy Playmates Mary and Madeleine Collinson....

), and Derek Aylward. It is also known as Moon. A young man is forced to work for a major criminal in his effort to find a hidden stash of stolen gold.

" Pete Walker's affectionate low-budget homage to the gangster thriller is packed with sights and sounds from a Britain about to swing out of the Sixties and into a somewhat less optimistic decade. Man of Violence offers not only rare glimpses of a world gone by but also some twists on generic convention." The music was composed and conducted by Cyril Ornadel

Cyril Ornadel

Cyril Ornadel was a British conductor, songwriter and composer chiefly in musical theatre.Cyril Ornadel was born in London. He studied at the Royal College of Music. During the 1950s he was famous for conducting the orchestra for the hit TV show The Sunday Night At The Palladium...

.

DVD and Blu-ray release

The BFI

British Film Institute

The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...

 have released Man of Violence on DVD and Blu-ray through its Flipside

BFI Flipside

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 strand, together with the film The Big Switch.

Cast

• Michael Latimer - Moon
• Luan Peters
  Luan Peters
  Luan Peters , also known as Karol Keyes, is an English actress.Born as Carol Hirsch, she made her stage debut in a pantomime aged four, then went on to win a drama scholarship at aged 16 after a performance of Twelfth Night...
  
   - Angel
• Derek Aylward - Nixon
• Maurice Kaufmann
  Maurice Kaufmann
  Maurice Harington Kaufmann was a British actor of stage, TV and film, particularly well-utilized in whodunnits and horrors who acted from 1954 to 1981, when he retired....
  
   - Charles Grayson
• Derek Francis
  Derek Francis
  Derek Francis was an English comedy and character actor.He was a regular in the Carry On film players, appearing in six of the films in the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in Roger Corman's last film of his Edgar Allan Poe series The Tomb of Ligeia...
  
   - Sam Bryant
• Kenneth Hendel - Hunt
• George Belbin - Burgess
• Sidney Conabere - Alex Powell
• Erika Raffael - Goose
• Virginia Wetherell
  Virginia Wetherell
  Virginia Wetherell is an English actress best known for her roles in Hammer horror films such as Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and Demons of the Mind...
  
   - Gale
• Steve Emerson - Steve
• Peter Thornton - Mike
• Michael Balfour - Cafe owner
• John Keston
  John Keston
  John Keston is an English-born actor and singer, and a world-record-holding runner.-Artist:...
  
   - Girling
• Jessica Spencer - Joyce
• Mark Allington
• Sheila Babbage
• Patrick Jordan
• Andreas Melandrinos
• John Lawrence
• Stephen Zamit
• and The Wishful Thinking