Tonight's Movie: The Frightened City (1961) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review

THE FRIGHTENED CITY (1961) was my second film to watch from the Kino Lorber Brit Noir Collection I, following CAGE OF GOLD (1950).THE FRIGHTENED CITY stars Herbert Lom and Sean Connery in a tale of the London crime underworld.Lom and Alfred Marks play Waldo and Harry, mobsters who come up with the idea to unite with several other gangs to form one unified entity collecting protection money from businesses all over town. All the gang heads will split the profits, minus ten percent going to Waldo off the top.Former burglar Paddy Damion (Connery), in need of work due to having recently lost his longtime partner in crime (Kenneth Griffiths) to a crippling injury, is brought on as the consortium's "insurance" collector and enforcer.Paddy also has a busy love life, sneaking around on loyal girlfriend Sadie (Olive McFarland) with Anya (Yvonne Romain); Anya, for her part, is also the mistress of Waldo and might be doing a little spying on Paddy.When Waldo decides to move into big-time…

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