The Siege of Sidney Street
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Cast & Crew
Robert S. Baker
Donald Sinden
Nicole Berger
Kieron Moore
Peter Wyngarde
Godfrey Quigley
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Synopsis
Peter heads a gang of militant Russian exiles living in London who have terrorized the city with robbery and murder in order to acquire funds needed for their anarchist ends. Sara, a young orphaned Russian refugee, meets Peter in the club where she sings and is drawn to him. When she learns that Peter, along with members of his gang including Yoska, Svaars, and Dmitrieff, participated in a bank robbery in which a man was murdered, she is horrified, but Peter justifies his crimes as fighting oppression. Meanwhile, Inspector Mannering, posing as a wanted man frequenting the East End dives, finally tracks down the gang. During this time he gets to know and understand Sara and the reasons for her complicity. However, further acts of crime and butchery by the gang arouse the entire nation and the anarchists flee to a hideout at 100 Sidney Street. On January 3, 1911, the police surround the neighborhood and close in for the siege.
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Cast
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Donald Sinden
Nicole Berger
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Kieron Moore
Peter Wyngarde
Godfrey Quigley
Leonard Sachs
Tutte Lemkow
George Pastell
Angela Newman
T. P. Mckenna
Maurice Good
James Caffrey
Harold Goldblatt
Christopher Casson
Harry Brogan
Alan Simpson
Robert Lepler
Margaret D'arcy
Joe Lynch
Stanley Illsley
Anne Sharpe
Bart Bastable
Paul Farrell
Bill Foley
Aiden Grennell
Jimmy Sangster
Crew
Robert S. Baker
Robert S. Baker
Alexander Baron
Monty Berman
Monty Berman
Peter Bezencenet
Stanley Black
Stanley Black
Charles Blair
Dick Byrne
Roy Byrne
Jill Carpenter
Tom Chapman
Noel Coade
Phyllis Crocker
Jim Dunlevy
Bill Greene
Jeanne Henderson
William Kellner
P. L. Kendrick
Ronald Liles
Peter Manley
Peter Mcgoldrick
Robert Musel
Shilleen O'rourke
Grania O'shannon
David Palmer
Freda Pearson
Brendan Redmond
Cliff Richardson
William Robinson
Maureen Roche
Jimmy Sangster
Jimmy Sangster
Liam Saurin
Betty Sherriff
Robin Vidgeon
Chic Waterson
Syd Wiles
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Film Details
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Released in London in October 1960. Also known as The Siege of Hell Street.
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