A Place to Go (1963)

Directors

Basil Dearden

Cast

Barbara Ferris, Bernard Lee, Doris Hare, Fred Haggerty, George Sewell, Marjie Lawrence, Mike Sarne, Rita Tushingham, Rita Webb, Roy Kinnear, William Marlowe, Yootha Joyce

The story

Ricky Flint dreams of escaping working-class Bethnal Green, where he works in a cigarette factory and shares a crowded terraced house with his middle-aged parents Matt and Lil; his pregnant sister Betsy, who soon gives birth; and Betsy's husband Jim. In order to get the money to leave, Ricky agrees to help a local gangster, Jack Ellerman, to rob the cigarette factory, and also gets Jim, a lorry driver hoping to buy an expensive transport licence, to join the plot. Ricky finds himself attracted to Catherine "Cat" Donovan, who has been dating Charlie Batey, another member of Jack's gang.

Genres

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